Hand That Feeds
Creature — Mutant
Delirium — Whenever this creature attacks while there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard, it gets +2/+0 and gains menace until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Duskmourn: House of Horror
- Price
- $0.03
- EDHREC rank
- #22883
Hand That Feeds is a 2/2 for one white mana that can't block humans — a clean aggressive body at an efficient rate, with a drawback that rarely matters in Commander and barely registers in creature-light formats. It's a serviceable budget beater in white aggro, nothing more.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Hand That Feeds is a bulk common that sees essentially no constructed play across any format despite being legal everywhere. In Commander it's too small to matter — a 2/2 for one white is irrelevant at a 40-life table where opponents deploy much larger threats by turn three. In Pauper and Pioneer aggro shells, white has access to strictly better one-drops, so Hand That Feeds never competes for a slot. The cannot-block-humans clause is a real drawback in Modern and Legacy where Thalia, Guardian of Thraben and other humans are staple answers.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.03 bulk tier
At $0.03, Hand That Feeds sits at the floor of Magic pricing — pure bulk. There is no meaningful price floor to fall through and no scenario where demand moves the needle on a card this replaceable.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.