Crowd's Favor
Instant
Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for 
or one mana of that creature's color.)
Target creature gets +1/+0 and gains first strike until end of turn. (It deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $0.17
- EDHREC rank
- #17854
Crowd's Favor pumps your whole team +1/+0 and grants first strike until end of turn — cast it during combat for a blowout block or a lethal alpha strike. The convoke cost means a board full of tokens can cast it for free, making it a zero-mana combat trick in the decks that want it.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Crowd's Favor is a token-deck payoff — the convoke cost scales directly with board width, so the decks that want it can cast it for free or close to it. In Pauper, it sees the most competitive play in Goblin and token-based storm-adjacent lists where first strike can decide a race outright. Legacy and Vintage are too hostile to sorcery-speed board states for a combat trick to matter, and Modern has enough efficient pump spells at instant speed that Crowd's Favor rarely displaces them. Oathbreaker mirrors the Commander calculus: token commanders get real value, everything else ignores it.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.17 bulk tier
At $0.17, Crowd's Favor is deep bulk — every copy you need costs less than a sleeve. That price is stable; there's no spike upside here, but there's also no reason to hesitate before throwing four in a token list.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.