Feral Encounter
Sorcery
Look at the top five cards of your library. You may exile a creature card from among them. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. You may cast the exiled card this turn. At the beginning of the next combat phase this turn, target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to up to one target creature you don't control.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Wilds of Eldraine
- Price
- $0.27
- EDHREC rank
- #13651
Feral Encounter puts a creature onto the battlefield from the top six cards of your library — no mana cost paid — and that alone justifies its slot in any green creature-heavy Commander deck. Two mana for a free creature drop and a keyword counter is simply efficient, and the fight clause turns a mediocre blocker into a removal spell on the way in.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Feral Encounter earns its place in any green deck that runs enough creatures to make the top-six gamble reliable — the free cast effect scales with your curve, meaning a Ghalta or Craterhoof Behemoth off the top is a two-mana game-swing. Outside Commander, the card is legal in Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, and Vintage, but it doesn't see competitive play in any of them — those formats demand consistency, and a sorcery-speed dig-six that whiffs when you're light on creatures can't compete with tutor-quality green options. Feral Encounter is a Commander card through and through.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.27 bulk tier
At $0.27, Feral Encounter sits firmly in bulk territory — pick it up without thinking about it. Bulk rare prices like this rarely move unless a card breaks into competitive play, which isn't on the horizon here, so buy it for the effect and don't expect the price to shift.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.