Gibbering Hyenas
Creature — Hyena
This creature can't block black creatures.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Mirage
- Price
- $0.15
- EDHREC rank
- #30593
Gibbering Hyenas is a 3/2 for two mana, but that rate only shows up when an opponent controls a Hyena or Jackal — a condition you almost never control and rarely see met. Outside of extremely narrow tribal or politics contexts, it's a vanilla understatement waiting for a trigger that doesn't come.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Gibbering Hyenas is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but seeing play in almost none of them. In Commander, the condition — requiring an opponent to control a Hyena or Jackal — is too parasitic to build around and too unreliable to stumble into. Pauper is the one format where narrow creatures occasionally find a home, but even there the tribal requirement has no support structure. Legacy and Vintage have no interest in a two-mana 1/1 with a conditional upside when the format's floor for creatures is set far higher.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.15 bulk tier
At $0.15, Gibbering Hyenas is deep bulk — the kind of price that reflects a card seeing essentially zero competitive or casual demand. That floor is unlikely to move without a dedicated Hyena or Jackal tribal payoff being printed, which would need to substantially reshape Commander metagames to matter.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.