Hans Eriksson
Legendary Creature — Human Scout
Whenever Hans Eriksson attacks, reveal the top card of your library. If it's a creature card, put it onto the battlefield tapped and attacking defending player or a planeswalker they control. Otherwise, put that card into your hand. When you put a creature card onto the battlefield this way, it fights Hans Eriksson.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GR
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $0.31
- EDHREC rank
- #17421
Hans Eriksson puts a free creature into play from the top of your library every time he attacks — the card advantage is real, and the chaos is the point. The catch is that the revealed creature fights him immediately, so he's a liability without enough big bodies to survive the ambush.
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 |
Hans Eriksson lives almost entirely in Commander, where singleton construction makes his reveal unpredictable but the payoff — cheating fatties into play for free — scales with every giant you run. Legacy and Vintage are technically legal homes, but neither format has interest in a four-mana 2/2 whose value is spread over multiple attacks. Oathbreaker could use him in a stompy shell, though the slot competition is fierce. Build around him in Commander or not at all.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.31 bulk tier
At $0.31, Hans Eriksson is bulk — easy to pick up and easy to cut if he underperforms. Prices at this tier are stable by default; there's no meaningful spike risk unless a popular precon or Commander variant drives sudden demand.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.