Gathering Throng
Creature — Human Citizen
When this creature enters, you may search your library for any number of cards named Gathering Throng, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Streets of New Capenna
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #30789
Gathering Throng creates a 1/1 creature token for each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard — in a spell-heavy deck that number climbs fast, and the token count can be enormous by the time you cast this. The cost is that you need a stocked graveyard to make it worth a card slot, so it's dead on turn two and a finisher on turn eight.
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 |
Commander is where Gathering Throng does its best work — spell-slinger decks like Magecraft and spellcopy builds routinely fill graveyards with ten-plus instants and sorceries, turning this into a one-card army late in the game. In Pauper it's legal and fits token-go-wide strategies, though the format's speed means the graveyard count rarely reaches the critical mass that makes it backbreaking. Modern and Pioneer have it legal but nearly unplayable — those formats are too fast for a sorcery-speed payoff that requires setup, and there are strictly tighter options at every price point. Legacy and Vintage share the same verdict: the raw power ceiling exists, but the competition for a deck slot is brutal. Stick to Commander if you're sleeving up Gathering Throng.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Gathering Throng is deep bulk — you'll find it in a common box before you find it on a secondary market wishlist. Bulk commons rarely move unless a format shift pushes demand, and nothing about this card's role suggests that's coming.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.