Cateran Summons
Sorcery
Search your library for a Mercenary card, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Mercadian Masques
- Price
- $0.91
- EDHREC rank
- #17908
Cateran Summons searches your library for any Mercenary and puts it directly into your hand — a clean tutor effect on a three-mana sorcery. The Mercenary creature type is narrow enough that this card lives or dies entirely on whether your deck is built around it.
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 |
Cateran Summons is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but sees essentially zero play outside of dedicated Mercenary tribal builds in Commander. In Legacy and Vintage, the Mercenary tribe lacks the power level to compete with what those formats offer, so Cateran Summons never appears there. In Commander, it slots into Mercenary-tribal decks as a tutor that finds any creature in the chain, which is exactly where it belongs — and nowhere else.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.91 bulk tier
At $0.91, Cateran Summons sits at the top of the bulk tier — cheap enough to grab without thinking if you're building Mercenary tribal. Demand is too narrow to push the price higher, so it should stay in this range indefinitely.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.