Herd Migration
Sorcery
Domain — Create a 3/3 green Beast creature token for each basic land type among lands you control.
, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. You gain 3 life.
- CMC
- 7
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Dominaria United
- Price
- $0.26
- EDHREC rank
- #19491
Herd Migration puts seven 3/3 Beast tokens into play — immediately — while also ramping you by fetching a basic land into hand. Seven power across seven bodies for seven mana is a legitimate rate, and the land fetch means it doesn't set you back on resources the way a pure token spell would.
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 |
Commander is where Herd Migration belongs. The format's slower clock makes a seven-mana sorcery viable, and the combination of board presence plus ramp lines up cleanly with go-wide strategies, token doublers, and sacrifice engines. In competitive 60-card formats — Modern, Pioneer, Legacy — seven mana is simply too much for what amounts to a token swarm with no immediate protection; faster threats dominate before Herd Migration can matter. Oathbreaker shares Commander's singleton structure and generally slower pace, so the card is playable there in the right shell, but the lower starting life total and tighter game length cut into its value.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.26 bulk tier
At $0.26, Herd Migration is deep bulk — you're paying almost nothing for a card that pulls real weight in token and ramp strategies. Bulk rares with narrow competitive appeal tend to stay cheap indefinitely, so there's no urgency and no ceiling to worry about.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.