Gnoll War Band
Creature — Gnoll
This spell costs 
less to cast for each opponent who was dealt damage this turn.
Menace
Myriad (Whenever this creature attacks, for each opponent other than defending player, you may create a token copy that's tapped and attacking that player or a planeswalker they control. Exile the tokens at end of combat.)
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate
- Price
- $0.18
- EDHREC rank
- #12260
Gnoll War Band enters swinging — it gets +1/+1 counters equal to the number of creatures that attacked this turn, which in a token-heavy or wide-board Commander game can mean a massive threat with no additional mana spent. The catch is a five-mana base cost with no immediate protection, so if it doesn't survive to swing it's just a 3/3 for five. Against a clean board it's good; against interaction-heavy tables, it needs support.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
The Master, Multiplied
The Master, Multiplied generates a flood of copy tokens that all attack together, which means Gnoll War Band enters combat as a functionally enormous threat every single turn — the wider the board The Master builds, the faster Gnoll War Band scales out of bolt range.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Gnoll War Band actually lives. Wide creature strategies are common, attack steps involve five or more creatures routinely, and the card's counter-stacking ability rewards exactly the kind of token swarms and go-wide aggro those decks produce. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but won't see play — five mana for a counter-accumulating creature has no competitive home in formats defined by one- and two-mana interaction. Oathbreaker sits closer to Commander in pace, and a token-centric Oathbreaker shell could use it, though the 60-card singleton constraint makes consistency harder to achieve.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.18 bulk tier
At $0.18, Gnoll War Band is deep bulk — the kind of card you pull from a draft chaff box or pick up in a bundle without noticing the price. Bulk rares with narrow mechanical conditions rarely recover significant value unless a commander archetype pushes demand, so treat this as a throw-in pick for any token or attack-trigger build rather than a speculative hold.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.