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Headhunter

Creature — Human Cleric

Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card.
Morph {B} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Onslaught
Price
$0.31
EDHREC rank
#25416
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Headhunter card art
Headhunter forces a discard every time it deals combat damage to a player — repeated hand disruption stapled to an attacker, not a one-shot spell. The cost is that it needs to connect, which means it lives and dies by evasion support, but in shells built around Missy or similar discard-matters commanders, that condition is almost always worth engineering.

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

In Commander, Headhunter is a repeatable discard threat in a 99-card format where hand disruption is otherwise hard to sustain — hit three players in a turn cycle and you've stripped three cards without spending a single extra resource. Legacy is technically legal but the format's density of two-mana 2/2s with no built-in evasion is brutal, and dedicated discard shells have stronger options; don't bother. Vintage follows the same logic at an even steeper power ceiling. Oathbreaker can find a home for Headhunter in aggressive black discard strategies where the game ends fast enough that a 2/2 still gets through.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.31 bulk tier

At $0.31, Headhunter is deep bulk — the kind of card you pull from a bargain bin without thinking twice. It holds that floor comfortably; there's no spike pressure on a narrow combat-damage trigger in a 2/2 body, so expect it to stay here.

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