Avenging Huntbonder
Creature — Human Warrior
Double strike
Whenever this creature attacks, put a double strike counter on another target attacking creature.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- New Capenna Commander
- Price
- $0.28
- EDHREC rank
- #12960
Avenging Huntbonder enters the battlefield and immediately starts stacking double strike counters on your creatures — every combat, every attacker, compounding fast. Five mana is the honest cost of that engine, and in the right deck it pays for itself by the second swing.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Kathril, Aspect Warper
Kathril, Aspect Warper distributes keyword counters from your graveyard across the board, and Avenging Huntbonder turns every one of those counters into a double strike clock — the combination can close games in a single attack step.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Avenging Huntbonder is a Commander card through and through: the payoff is cumulative, rewards a wide board, and plays best across a long game where multiple combat steps compound the double strike counters. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but irrelevant — five mana for a 3/3 that requires additional combat steps to pay off has no home in those formats. Oathbreaker can support it if the spellbreaker identity lines up, but the card's ceiling lives in 100-card multiplayer, specifically in keyword-counter and go-wide strategies.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.28 bulk tier
At $0.28, Avenging Huntbonder sits squarely in bulk territory — easy to acquire as throw-in trade fodder or a cheap cart add-on. Bulk rares with narrow homes rarely climb unless a new commander pushes them into wider demand, so treat it as a low-risk pickup for decks that want it, not a spec.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.