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Haunted One

Legendary Enchantment — Background

Commander creatures you own have "Whenever this creature becomes tapped, it and other creatures you control that share a creature type with it each get +2/+0 and gain undying until end of turn." (When a creature with undying dies, if it had no +1/+1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it.)

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
mythic
Set
Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#4406
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Haunted One card art
Haunted One gives all your creatures menace until end of turn — a combat finisher stapled onto a background that costs two mana to cast and zero slots outside the command zone if your commander supports it. The payoff is immediate and massive in token-wide strategies; Fain, the Broker and Ellie, Brick Master // Joel, Resolute Survivor both run it because a board-wide evasion pump on attack is often the difference between winning that turn and not.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Ellie, Brick MasterJoel, Resolute Survivor

Ellie, Brick Master // Joel, Resolute Survivor

44.6% of decks · synergy 0.44

Ellie, Brick Master // Joel, Resolute Survivor is the natural home for Haunted One — Ellie generates Survivor tokens constantly, and a board of hasty Survivors swinging with menace through a background that costs two mana to deploy is a closing engine that comes online early.

02
Burakos, Party LeaderFolk Hero

Burakos, Party Leader // Folk Hero

37.6% of decks · synergy 0.37

Burakos, Party Leader // Folk Hero turns treasure production into card advantage, and Haunted One gives that wide token board the evasion it needs to punch through — every menace attacker that connects also triggers Folk Hero's draw.

03
Ashcoat of the Shadow Swarm

Ashcoat of the Shadow Swarm

37.2% of decks · synergy 0.35

Ashcoat of the Shadow Swarm floods the board with Rat tokens, and Haunted One converts that horizontal mass into an unblockable wall of menace; the Rats that already have modified stats from Ashcoat become doubly difficult to answer in combat.

04
Francisco, Fowl MarauderMalcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator

Francisco, Fowl Marauder // Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator

37.6% of decks · synergy 0.35

Francisco, Fowl Marauder // Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator prizes multiple attackers connecting simultaneously for treasure generation, and Haunted One's board-wide menace makes it far easier to get those triggers through a defended board.

05
Marrow-Gnawer

Marrow-Gnawer

33.6% of decks · synergy 0.31

Marrow-Gnawer can produce an arbitrarily large Rat swarm in a single turn, and Haunted One turns that mass into a menace army that forces opponents to sacrifice two blockers per attacker — with enough Rats, that's simply unsolvable.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Haunted One is a Commander card through and through — the Background mechanic only functions in the command zone alongside a 'choose a Background' commander, so its real home is EDH. In Legacy and Vintage, it's technically legal but Background has no rules support outside Commander, making it a blank enchantment that does nothing in those formats. Commander is the only context where Haunted One earns its slot, and in the right token-wide deck it earns it comfortably.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

6 decks
Vhal, Candlekeep ResearcherHaunted OneFain, the BrokerIntruder AlarmViscera Seer

Vhal, Candlekeep ResearcherHaunted OneFain, the BrokerIntruder AlarmViscera Seer

Infinite colored mana; Infinite colorless mana; Infinite creature tokens; Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite scry 1; Infinite Treasure tokens; Infinite +1/+1 counters on creatures you control; Infinite untap of creatures you control

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2 decks
Xavier Sal, Infested CaptainHaunted OneIntruder AlarmPhyrexian Altar

Xavier Sal, Infested CaptainHaunted OneIntruder AlarmPhyrexian Altar

Infinite LTB; Infinite ETB; Infinite colored mana; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite death triggers; Infinite untap of creatures; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce; Infinite power for certain creatures until end of turn; Infinite untap of creatures you control

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Price Context

Current price

unknown tier

Pricing data for Haunted One isn't currently available in our index — check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for a live quote. Given its narrow mechanical scope and Commander-only utility, it tends to sit in the budget-to-mid range and is rarely a chase card.

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