Hooded Brawler
Creature — Snake Warrior
You may exert this creature as it attacks. When you do, it gets +2/+2 until end of turn. (An exerted creature won't untap during your next untap step.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Amonkhet
- Price
- $0.04
- EDHREC rank
- #27694
Hooded Brawler is a 3/2 with entwine-adjacent flexibility — it blocks or attacks reasonably for three mana, but that's the ceiling. No evasion, no enters-the-battlefield effect, no text that scales past the early game makes it a filler creature in nearly every context.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Hooded Brawler is legal across Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legal and playable are different words. In Commander, a 3/2 vanilla-adjacent creature at three mana doesn't come close to the floor for a 100-card singleton format where every slot competes against years of power creep. Pauper is the one format where common creatures get scrutinized most closely, and even there Hooded Brawler doesn't clear the bar — better three-drop commons exist at every role. In eternal formats like Legacy and Vintage, it simply doesn't register.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.04 bulk tier
At $0.04, Hooded Brawler is deep bulk — the kind of card that ends up in a common box at a game store, not a trade binder. There's no realistic demand driver that moves a card like this off the floor, so the price reflects the play rate accurately.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.