Flourishing Hunter
Creature — Wolf Spirit
When this creature enters, you gain life equal to the greatest toughness among other creatures you control.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Innistrad: Double Feature
- Price
- $0.18
- EDHREC rank
- #15178
Flourishing Hunter puts a body on the board and gains you life every turn it attacks — the payoff is immediate and scales with how aggressive your deck wants to be. At four mana for a 3/3, the rate is unspectacular, but in lifegain-matters shells the trigger is the whole point.
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, Flourishing Hunter belongs in dedicated lifegain decks where each trigger feeds a payoff engine — the card does almost nothing in a generic green deck. In Pauper it's legal but competes with more efficient common creatures that don't ask you to attack to earn their benefit. Modern and Pioneer have creature-quality bars Flourishing Hunter doesn't clear; nothing in those formats is hunting for a 3/3 that gains life on swing. Legacy and Vintage are irrelevant — the card is too low-impact to register. Commander is the only format where Flourishing Hunter earns a slot, and even there only in the right shell.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.18 bulk tier
At $0.18, Flourishing Hunter is deep bulk — you're paying for the effect, not the card. Bulk commons and uncommons at this price point don't hold or gain value, so buy exactly as many as you need and move on.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.