Hoarding Broodlord

Creature — Dragon

Convoke
Flying
When this creature enters, search your library for a card, exile it face down, then shuffle. For as long as that card remains exiled, you may play it.
Spells you cast from exile have convoke.

CMC
8
Mana cost
{5}{B}{B}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
rare
Set
March of the Machine Promos
Price
$4.77
EDHREC rank
#1652
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Hoarding Broodlord card art
Hoarding Broodlord enters and tutors any card straight to your hand — a 7/6 flying body stapled to unconditional black tutoring is already a strong rate. The eight-mana cost is real, but every deck running Appa, Steadfast Guardian or Sivitri, Dragon Master that can cheat it into play or discount it is getting a two-for-one that immediately demands an answer.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Sivitri, Dragon Master

Sivitri, Dragon Master

40.6% of decks · synergy 0.39

Sivitri, Dragon Master tutors Dragons directly, and Hoarding Broodlord is the Dragon that tutors back — 40% of Sivitri decks run it specifically because finding the right Dragon for the right situation is exactly what the deck wants to do.

02
K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth

K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth

32.6% of decks · synergy 0.28

K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth turns that eight-mana cost into a life payment, letting Hoarding Broodlord hit the battlefield as early as turn three and immediately find whatever piece the combo line is missing.

03
Gyruda, Doom of Depths

Gyruda, Doom of Depths

28.5% of decks · synergy 0.27

Hoarding Broodlord is an even-mana-cost creature, which means Gyruda, Doom of Depths can mill it into play — and when it enters off Gyruda, the tutor trigger still fires, extending the chain.

04
Rakdos, the Muscle

Rakdos, the Muscle

30.5% of decks · synergy 0.26

Rakdos, the Muscle cares about putting big creatures into play for free, and Hoarding Broodlord landing without paying its cost means the tutor is pure profit — over 30% of Rakdos the Muscle decks treat it as a reliable value engine.

05
Hashaton, Scarab's Fist

Hashaton, Scarab's Fist

22.0% of decks · synergy 0.20

Hashaton, Scarab's Fist builds around graveyard recursion and creature-based value, and Hoarding Broodlord fits cleanly as a tutor that doubles as a recursive threat worth bringing back again and again.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander
legacy
modern
pioneer
standard
vintage
pauper
oathbreaker

Commander is where Hoarding Broodlord lives — the singleton format rewards unconditional tutoring, and a 7/6 flying body that finds any card in your deck for eight mana is a meaningful late-game play in almost any black shell. In competitive Modern or Legacy, eight mana is simply too slow for formats where the game is decided by turn four; reanimator strategies exist in both formats, but Hoarding Broodlord competes with cheaper, more broken reanimation targets and rarely makes the cut. Pioneer offers a slightly slower metagame but the same fundamental problem: dedicated reanimation shells want targets that win immediately, not tutors that require further setup. Oathbreaker can exploit it in the same way Commander does, particularly in black-heavy builds that can survive to the mid-game.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$4.77 cheap tier

At $4.77, Hoarding Broodlord sits in the cheap tier for what is effectively an unconditional tutor on a large flying body. That price is likely to hold — it sees consistent demand across multiple Commander archetypes and has no realistic budget replacement that combines the stat line with true unrestricted tutoring.

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