Homunculus Horde
Creature — Homunculus
Whenever you draw your second card each turn, create a token that's a copy of this creature.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Foundations
- Price
- $0.71
- EDHREC rank
- #2472
Homunculus Horde puts a pile of tokens on the board scaled to how many cards you've drawn — the more cards your opponents have seen, the bigger the army. The cost is real: it asks you to track a communal draw count and typically rewards decks already built around that axis, which is why Vnwxt, Verbose Host runs it in over half of all builds.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Vnwxt, Verbose Host
Vnwxt, Verbose Host forces everyone to draw extra cards every turn, so Homunculus Horde reliably enters with a massive token count — the commander and the spell are doing the same job from different angles.
The Council of Four
The Council of Four triggers card draws for the whole table whenever expensive spells resolve, inflating the cumulative draw count that Homunculus Horde converts directly into bodies.
Ian Malcolm, Chaotician
Ian Malcolm, Chaotician generates cascading card-draw triggers through chaotic spell effects, and Homunculus Horde cashes in that accumulated draw count for a board presence that scales with how wild the game has gotten.
Kami of the Crescent Moon
Kami of the Crescent Moon forces an extra draw every upkeep for each player, meaning the draw count climbs faster than in any other shell and Homunculus Horde lands as a game-warping token dump by mid-game.
Gavi, Nest Warden
Gavi, Nest Warden rewards you for cycling and drawing, and Homunculus Horde slots in as a payoff that turns the deck's core loop — draw as many cards as possible — into a sudden board flood.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Homunculus Horde is a Commander card through and through: multiplayer games accumulate enormous communal draw counts over a long game, which is exactly the condition that makes the token output explosive rather than marginal. In one-on-one formats like Modern and Pioneer it's too slow and too conditional — a six-mana sorcery that makes tokens proportional to draws in a two-player game rarely delivers enough to matter. Legacy and Vintage have the raw power to ignore it entirely. Commander is the only environment where Homunculus Horde regularly produces double-digit tokens off a single cast.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.71 bulk tier
At $0.71, Homunculus Horde sits firmly in bulk territory, which makes it an easy pick-up for any draw-matters Commander deck without a second thought. That price is unlikely to move much given its narrow format applicability, so buy it when you need it and don't expect it to spike.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.