Hiveheart Shaman
Creature — Human Shaman
Whenever this creature attacks, you may search your library for a basic land card that doesn't share a land type with a land you control, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
: Create a 1/1 green Insect creature token. Put X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is the number of basic land types among lands you control. Activate only as a sorcery.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Magic Online Promos
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #25222
Hiveheart Shaman puts a land into play untapped every time you cast an instant or sorcery, which means it can snowball fast in spellslinger builds. The cost is a five-mana 3/3 body — that rate demands a deck that can exploit the trigger immediately or it sits as a do-nothing vanilla.
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 the only competitive home for Hiveheart Shaman — the trigger compounds over a long game, and the format's singleton rule means you're not competing with strictly better ramp pieces at the same slot. In Modern or Legacy, a five-mana creature that doesn't affect the board on entry is too slow; those formats kill you or win before the land triggers matter. Pioneer is similarly hostile — the format's tempo demands payoff by turn three or four, not turn five. Hiveheart Shaman is legal in Oathbreaker, where the lower life totals and faster games make the five-drop tax even harder to justify unless your signature spell is a cheap instant that fires the trigger the same turn.
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Price Context
Current price
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Pricing data isn't available for Hiveheart Shaman at the moment, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for current market values. Given the card's niche Commander-only appeal, it typically doesn't command a premium — budget players in spellslinger lists should find copies easy to acquire.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.