Gather the Pack
Sorcery
Reveal the top five cards of your library. You may put a creature card from among them into your hand. Put the rest into your graveyard.
Spell mastery — If there are two or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard, put up to two creature cards from among the revealed cards into your hand instead of one.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Magic Origins
- Price
- $0.28
- EDHREC rank
- #18620
Gather the Pack mills five cards and puts a creature in hand — two for the price of one when spell mastery is live. At two mana it's efficient enough to run in any creature-heavy graveyard deck that can consistently turn on spell mastery by turn two or three.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Gather the Pack earns a slot in graveyard-centric creature decks — think reanimator shells and Meren-style value engines — where filling the yard and finding a creature serve the same game plan. Modern and Pioneer are where Gather the Pack has seen the most competitive stress-testing, slotting into Dredge and creature-toolbox lists that need cheap self-mill with upside. Legacy has better options at the same cost, so it rarely makes the cut there. Oathbreaker mirrors Commander's verdict: run it if your signature spell or commander rewards a stocked graveyard.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.28 bulk tier
At $0.28, Gather the Pack is pure bulk — you're paying almost nothing for a card that does genuine work in the right shell. Bulk rares with narrow applications tend to stay cheap, so don't expect the price to move unless a new graveyard commander pushes demand.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.