---
name: "Kastral, the Windcrested"
mana_cost: "{3}{W}{U}"
cmc: 5
type_line: "Legendary Creature — Bird Scout"
colors: []
color_identity: ["U", "W"]
keywords: ["Flying"]
set: "BLB"
set_name: "Bloomburrow"
collector_number: "221"
rarity: "rare"
artist: "Jesper Ejsing"
oracle_id: "ced5fe9a-4237-4c89-9dd6-b133b966ebcc"
canonical_url: "https://avascry.com/printing/kastral-the-windcrested-blb"
legalities:
  commander: "legal"
  standard: "legal"
  modern: "legal"
  pioneer: "legal"
  legacy: "legal"
  vintage: "legal"
  pauper: "not_legal"
  penny: "legal"
---

# Kastral, the Windcrested
- **Mana Cost:** `{3}{W}{U}` (CMC: 5)
- **Type:** Legendary Creature — Bird Scout
- **Keywords:** Flying

## Oracle Text
Flying
Whenever one or more Birds you control deal combat damage to a player, choose one —
• You may put a Bird creature card from your hand or graveyard onto the battlefield with a finality counter on it.
• Put a +1/+1 counter on each Bird you control.
• Draw a card.

## Top 4096-Dim Neural Synergies
1. [Plumecreed Mentor](/printing/plumecreed-mentor-blb.md) — Creature — Bird Scout
2. [Soaring Show-Off](/printing/soaring-show-off-bbd.md) — Creature — Bird Warrior
3. [Aven Surveyor](/printing/aven-surveyor-cmr.md) — Creature — Bird Scout
4. [Crookclaw Elder](/printing/crookclaw-elder-lgn.md) — Creature — Bird Wizard
5. [Airborne Aid](/printing/airborne-aid-ons.md) — Sorcery
6. [Sterling Supplier](/printing/sterling-supplier-otj.md) — Creature — Bird Soldier

## Printing Details
- **Set:** Bloomburrow (BLB) #221
- **Rarity:** Rare
- **Artist:** Jesper Ejsing

## Format Legalities
Commander: `legal` | Standard: `legal` | Modern: `legal` | Pioneer: `legal` | Legacy: `legal` | Vintage: `legal` | Pauper: `not_legal` | Penny: `legal`

## Official Rulings
- *(2024-07-26)* Multiple finality counters on a single permanent are redundant.
- *(2024-07-26)* Finality counters aren’t keyword counters, and a finality counter doesn’t give any abilities to the permanent it’s on. If that permanent loses its abilities and then would go to a graveyard, it will still be exiled instead.
- *(2024-07-26)* Finality counters don’t stop permanents from going to zones other than the graveyard from the battlefield. For example, if a permanent with a finality counter on it would be put into its owner’s hand from the battlefield, it does so normally.
- *(2024-07-26)* Finality counters work on any permanent, not only creatures. If a permanent with a finality counter on it would be put into a graveyard from the battlefield, exile it instead.