Gnoll Hunter
Creature — Gnoll
Pack tactics — Whenever this creature attacks, if you attacked with creatures with total power 6 or greater this combat, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Adventures in the Forgotten Realms
- Price
- $0.09
- EDHREC rank
- #22458
Gnoll Hunter is a 2/2 for two mana with pack tactics — if you attacked with another creature this turn, it gets a bonus on the attack — and in most contexts that condition is trivially met. It's a solid budget beater in aggressive tribal builds, but it won't make the cut anywhere the bar for two-drops is higher.
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, Gnoll Hunter fits into aggressive go-wide decks where triggering pack tactics every combat is nearly automatic — think token strategies or wide tribal boards. In Pauper, the common slot is brutally competitive at two mana, and Gnoll Hunter doesn't clear that bar against the format's established aggro staples. Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer have no interest in a vanilla-adjacent two-drop; those formats demand two-mana creatures that generate value or close games independently. Oathbreaker follows Commander's logic, so the same tribal-aggro caveat applies there.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.09 bulk tier
At $0.09, Gnoll Hunter is deep bulk — the kind of card you pull from a common box rather than buy. There's no realistic price floor to fall through, and no scarcity driver that would push it up.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.