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Good-Fortune Unicorn

Creature — Unicorn

Whenever another creature you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{1}{G}{W}
Color identity
GW
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Jumpstart: Historic Horizons
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#3416
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Good-Fortune Unicorn card art
Good-Fortune Unicorn turns every creature entering the battlefield into a +1/+1 counter trigger — no activation cost, no hoops, just a persistent anthem stapled to an ETB engine. At three mana it slots cleanly into any counters shell, and commanders like Hamza, Guardian of Arashin lean on it so hard that pairing it with Ashnod's Altar creates a self-fueling loop the moment you have a sacrifice outlet and a token generator in play.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Hamza, Guardian of Arashin

Hamza, Guardian of Arashin

59.7% of decks · synergy 0.51

Good-Fortune Unicorn is doing double duty in Hamza, Guardian of Arashin decks: every creature that enters with a counter reduces the cost of the next one, so Unicorn's trigger is directly subsidizing your entire curve. In a deck built around cheap, counter-laden creatures, that cost reduction snowballs fast enough that Hamza can dump his hand by turn five.

02
Bright-Palm, Soul Awakener

Bright-Palm, Soul Awakener

50.3% of decks · synergy 0.48

Bright-Palm, Soul Awakener cares about creatures with the most +1/+1 counters for its double-strike and trample payoffs, and Good-Fortune Unicorn guarantees every new creature arrives with at least one counter to start stacking. The Unicorn essentially does Bright-Palm's setup work for free on each ETB.

03
Dyadrine, Synthesis Amalgam

Dyadrine, Synthesis Amalgam

48.1% of decks · synergy 0.40

Dyadrine, Synthesis Amalgam creates token copies of creatures, and Good-Fortune Unicorn ensures that each of those copies — and each token that follows — enters with a counter already loaded. That interaction turns Dyadrine's copying into a counter-proliferation engine with no additional investment.

04
Shalai and Hallar

Shalai and Hallar

41.0% of decks · synergy 0.39

Shalai and Hallar deals damage equal to the number of counters placed each turn, so Good-Fortune Unicorn converting every ETB into a counter trigger is direct damage fuel. Flood the board with creatures and every new arrival is both a threat and a Hallar ping.

05
Ghave, Guru of Spores

Ghave, Guru of Spores

41.7% of decks · synergy 0.38

Ghave, Guru of Spores runs on +1/+1 counters and token generation, and Good-Fortune Unicorn sits at the center of the deck's infinite loops — with a free sacrifice outlet, Unicorn's trigger feeds Ghave's ability, which makes tokens, which re-trigger Unicorn, which feeds Ghave again. It's one of the cleanest combo enablers in the archetype.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Good-Fortune Unicorn lives — it's a staple in any counters-matters or token-sacrifice shell, and its fifty-plus percent inclusion rate in Hamza, Guardian of Arashin decks reflects how central it is to that archetype's engine. In competitive formats like Modern and Pioneer, Good-Fortune Unicorn sees fringe play in +1/+1 counter synergy decks but lacks the raw speed or redundancy to be a format staple. Legacy and Vintage have faster, more broken things to do on three mana. Standard legality means it has a window in current constructed, though creature-ETB engines need enough support pieces to be consistent at that power level. Oathbreaker functions essentially the same as Commander for this card's purposes — if your planeswalker cares about creature tokens or counters, Unicorn earns its slot.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

unknown tier

Pricing data for Good-Fortune Unicorn isn't available in the current feed, so check Scryfall or your preferred retailer for a live number. Historically it's settled in the budget-to-mid range given its narrow archetype focus and multiple printings, making it an easy inclusion if you're already in a counters shell.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.