Hamlet Captain
Creature — Human Warrior
Whenever this creature attacks or blocks, other Humans you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $0.36
- EDHREC rank
- #21577
Hamlet Captain pumps your entire attacking team whenever it attacks alongside another Human, turning a board of modest creatures into a meaningful combat threat. The cost is a two-mana 2/2 with no built-in protection — it lives and dies by whether your deck can keep a critical mass of Humans on the table.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Hamlet Captain is a Commander card in practice — Human tribal synergies scale with the size of your board, and 100-card singleton is where those boards get biggest. In Modern and Pioneer, dedicated Human aggro decks exist but run a tight, redundancy-focused curve where a two-mana 2/2 with a conditional pump rarely makes the cut over Thalia's Lieutenant or Champion of the Parish. Legacy has access to even stronger payoffs, so Hamlet Captain sits well below the power threshold there. Oathbreaker follows similar logic to Commander — viable if you're running a Human-heavy list, but the smaller starting hand size makes fragile two-drops riskier.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.36 bulk tier
At $0.36, Hamlet Captain is bulk, and that price reflects its narrow role outside tribal Commander builds. It's stable there — no competitive demand to drive it up, no reprint risk to drive it down.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.