Steel Hellkite
Steel Hellkite: Artifact Creature - Dragon, Foundations Commander. Flying. 2: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Prices and printings on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {6}
- Mana value
- 6
- Type
- Artifact Creature - Dragon
- Colour identity
- Colourless
- Power / toughness
- 5/5
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- Foundations Commander (FDC)
- Released
- 2026-10-02
- Collector number
- 289
- Artist
- James Paick
- Commander rank
- 1,182 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
- Keywords
- Flying
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About Steel Hellkite
Steel Hellkite is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare colourless artifact creature from Foundations Commander (FDC), released in October 2026. It is collector number 289 in that set, with art by James Paick. It costs {6} (six generic mana) to cast, for a mana value of 6. It is a 5/5 creature. It has no colour identity. It is legal in Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, PreDH, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Historic, Timeless, Alchemy, Gladiator and Penny Dreadful. It has been printed in 17 sets, from Scars of Mirrodin (2010) to Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (2025). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.25 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-03).
Card text
Flying
{2}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
{X}: Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value X whose controller was dealt combat damage by this creature this turn. Activate only once each turn.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.25 (as of 2026-11-03).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Steel Hellkite by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Standard | Legal |
|---|---|
| Pioneer | Legal |
| Modern | Legal |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| PreDH | Legal |
| Brawl | Legal |
| Standard Brawl | Legal |
| Historic | Legal |
| Timeless | Legal |
| Alchemy | Legal |
| Gladiator | Legal |
| Penny Dreadful | Legal |
Other printings of Steel Hellkite
Steel Hellkite has been printed in 17 sets. The 12 most recent other printings are listed here, newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC) #327 | Rare | 2025 |
| Foundations (FDN) #681 | Rare | 2024 |
| Murders at Karlov Manor Commander (MKC) #239 | Rare | 2024 |
| Year of the Dragon 2024 (PL24) #4 | Rare | 2024 |
| Commander Masters (CMM) #975 | Rare | 2023 |
| Starter Commander Decks (SCD) #278 | Rare | 2022 |
| The Brothers' War Commander (BRC) #163 | Rare | 2022 |
| Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB) #874 | Rare | 2022 |
| Commander 2021 (C21) #266 | Rare | 2021 |
| Commander 2018 (C18) #224 | Rare | 2018 |
| Commander Anthology Volume II (CM2) #222 | Rare | 2018 |
| Commander 2017 (C17) #225 | Rare | 2017 |
Official rulings
The 8 most recent official rulings for Steel Hellkite, newest first.
- The mana value of a permanent is determined solely by the mana symbols printed in its upper right corner, unless it's copying something else (see below). The mana value is the total amount of mana in that cost, regardless of color. For example, a card with mana cost {3}{U}{U} has mana value 5.
- If a nonland permanent has no mana symbols in its upper right corner (because it's a token that's not copying something else, for example), its mana value is 0.
- Steel Hellkite's last ability destroys only nonland permanents whose mana value is exactly equal to X, and only those controlled by players who have been dealt combat damage by Steel Hellkite this turn.
- If the mana cost of a permanent includes {X}, X is 0 for the purpose of determining its mana value.
- In all cases, ignore any alternative costs or additional costs (such as kicker) paid when the permanent was cast.
- If a permanent is copying something else, its mana value is the mana value of whatever it's copying.
- It doesn't matter who controlled those permanents at the time Steel Hellkite dealt combat damage, or if those permanents were even on the battlefield at that time.
- You may activate the last ability even if Steel Hellkite hasn't dealt combat damage to any players that turn. If you do, the ability won't do anything.
Similar cards
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