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Faldorn, Dread Wolf Herald

Legendary Creature — Human Druid

Whenever you cast a spell from exile or a land you control enters from exile, create a 2/2 green Wolf creature token.
{1}, {T}, Discard a card: Exile the top card of your library. You may play it this turn.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{1}{R}{G}
Color identity
GR
Rarity
mythic
Set
Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#3776
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Faldorn, Dread Wolf Herald card art
Faldorn, Dread Wolf Herald turns every card played from exile into a free 2/2 Wolf token, which means exile-matters engines snowball fast — pair her with Eternal Scourge looping through exile and you're making tokens every single cast. Loot, the Key to Everything decks run her because the exile-cast triggers stack immediately and the Wolf army closes games before opponents can stabilize.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Loot, the Key to Everything

Loot, the Key to Everything

65.9% of decks · synergy 0.60

Loot, the Key to Everything exiles and casts cards as a core loop, which means every hit off the top feeds Faldorn, Dread Wolf Herald a free Wolf token — the two commanders together turn a single activation into a board presence that compounds each turn.

02
Averna, the Chaos Bloom

Averna, the Chaos Bloom

59.4% of decks · synergy 0.54

Averna, the Chaos Bloom cascades through the deck repeatedly, and every cascaded spell cast from exile triggers Faldorn, Dread Wolf Herald — cascade chains that were already producing mana now also produce a growing Wolf army.

03
Rocco, Street Chef

Rocco, Street Chef

51.1% of decks · synergy 0.49

Rocco, Street Chef exiles the top card each upkeep and lets players cast it, generating a guaranteed Faldorn, Dread Wolf Herald trigger every single turn with no additional setup required.

04

Beluna Grandsquall

48.3% of decks · synergy 0.43

Beluna Grandsquall cascades on each adventure cast, and each cascade spell that fires from exile feeds Faldorn, Dread Wolf Herald a token — adventure-dense lists turn Faldorn into a reliable board-flooding engine.

05
Lara Croft, Tomb Raider

Lara Croft, Tomb Raider

36.5% of decks · synergy 0.31

Lara Croft, Tomb Raider excavates cards into exile and creates opportunities to cast them, giving Faldorn, Dread Wolf Herald a consistent stream of triggers tied to the artifact-and-explore gameplan.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Faldorn, Dread Wolf Herald does her real work — a 99-card deck built around exile-cast payoffs turns her into a persistent token engine that opponents must answer or get buried under. In Legacy and Vintage she's technically legal but too slow and too narrow to compete with the formats' core strategies. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander format worth a look: a four-card starting hand with an exile-heavy signature spell can produce Wolf tokens on turn two or three, and the lower life total means those 2/2s close faster.

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Price Context

Current price

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Current pricing data for Faldorn, Dread Wolf Herald isn't available in this snapshot, so check Scryfall or a retailer for the live number. As a Gruul legendary from a Commander-focused product with a specific exile-matters niche, she tends to hold modest value — worth picking up if you're building the archetype rather than speculating.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.