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Dragonhawk, Fate's Tempest

Legendary Creature — Bird Dragon · {3}{R}{R} · Red commander

Flying Whenever Dragonhawk enters or attacks, exile the top X cards of your library, where X is the number of creatures you control with power 4 or greater. You may play those cards until your next end step. At the beginning of your next end step, Dragonhawk deals 2 damage to each opponent for each of those cards that are still exiled.

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What Dragonhawk, Fate's Tempest actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

• Triggered ability · attackWhenever Dragonhawk enters or attacks, exile the top X cards of your library, where X is the number of creatures you control with power 4 or greater. You may play those cards until your next end step.
• Keyword · flyingflying

What a Dragonhawk, Fate's Tempest deck needs

Plays as combat trigger. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.

• blink and recursion aimed at the commander itself (its value is its own enter trigger)
• cheap spells and lands to play off its impulse draw (exiled cards must be played that turn)
• creatures with power 4 or greater (its text only counts them)
• haste, evasion and protection for the commander, and extra combats (its own attack is the engine)

The Dragonhawk, Fate's Tempest deck plan

The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.

• 12× A creature at or above the commander's power floor — its text only counts them (dossier vet 2026-09-26: Bugenhagen, Gwenna, Ruby)
• 6× Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
• 6× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
• 4× Evasion that does NOT target or attach — for a commander your own auras and equipment cannot legally touch
• 8× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
• 4× Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
• 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 1× Answer a whole board at once

Best cards for Dragonhawk, Fate's Tempest

Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.

Combos with Dragonhawk, Fate's Tempest

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Dragonhawk, Fate's Tempest is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

• Dragonhawk, Fate's Tempest + Orthion, Hero Of Lavabrink + The Master, Multiplied207 decks
• Dragonhawk, Fate's Tempest + Orthion, Hero Of Lavabrink + Mirror Box184 decks
• Dragonhawk, Fate's Tempest + Orthion, Hero Of Lavabrink + Cadric, Soul Kindler167 decks
• Dragonhawk, Fate's Tempest + Rite Of Replication + Sakashima Of A Thousand Faces108 decks
• Dragonhawk, Fate's Tempest + Rite Of Replication + Mirror Box43 decks
• Dragonhawk, Fate's Tempest + Orthion, Hero Of Lavabrink + Mirror Gallery21 decks

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