Ashiok's Forerunner
Creature — Human Wizard
Flash
When this creature enters, you may search your library and/or graveyard for a card named Ashiok, Sculptor of Fears, reveal it, and put it into your hand. If you search your library this way, shuffle.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BU
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Theros Beyond Death
- Price
- $0.17
- EDHREC rank
- #26111
Ashiok's Forerunner tutors any Nightmare card directly onto the battlefield when it enters — that's a free, unconditional creature deployment stapled to a 3/3 body for five mana. The cost is real, but in any deck built around Nightmare synergies, it's the glue that makes the engine consistent.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Ashiok's Forerunner is a Commander card through and through — the Nightmare tribe is sparse enough that the tutoring effect is most meaningful in a 100-card singleton format where finding your key pieces is otherwise unreliable. In Modern, Pioneer, and Legacy, five mana for a 3/3 tutor that only hits a narrow creature type won't clear the competitive bar when those formats demand efficiency above all else. Oathbreaker gives it a niche home if you're building around an Ashiok planeswalker and want redundancy in your Nightmare package.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.17 bulk tier
At $0.17, Ashiok's Forerunner is deep bulk — you're picking it up for pennies in any trade binder. That price is stable because demand is narrow and supply is plentiful; don't expect movement unless a future set dramatically expands the Nightmare creature type.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.