Hormagaunt Horde
Creature — Tyranid
Ravenous (This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. If X is 5 or more, draw a card when it enters.)
Endless Swarm — Whenever a land you control enters, you may pay 
. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Warhammer 40,000 Commander
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #9285
Hormagaunt Horde hits the board as a self-scaling threat that grows proportionally to your existing creature count, making it enormous for its mana cost in any wide green strategy. The Swarmlord is the natural home, but any deck that floods the board with tokens gets immediate returns.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
The Swarmlord
The Swarmlord's triggered ability generates Hormagaunts every time a creature with power 3 or greater attacks, meaning Hormagaunt Horde enters a board already built to make it massive and then attacks to grow that board further — it's a self-reinforcing loop that defines the deck.
Magus Lucea Kane
Magus Lucea Kane copies spells and permanents with X in their cost, and Hormagaunt Horde's X-scaling means a copied version doubles both the token count and the board presence in a single swing.
Rosheen, Roaring Prophet
Rosheen, Roaring Prophet generates mana specifically for X spells, letting Hormagaunt Horde land several turns ahead of schedule with a far larger X than the raw mana count would otherwise allow.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Hormagaunt Horde does its best work — 100-card singleton games regularly hit the critical creature densities that make its enter-the-battlefield power spike relevant, and the format's slower pace gives you time to set up the board before casting it. Legacy and Vintage are legal but uninterested; those formats don't want a sorcery-speed creature that requires board investment to be impactful when faster, unconditional threats exist at every point on the curve. Oathbreaker follows Commander's logic closely enough that the card functions similarly there, assuming a token- or creature-heavy shell.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Current pricing data for Hormagaunt Horde isn't available in this snapshot, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the live number before buying. Given its near-exclusive home in The Swarmlord decks and limited cross-format demand, it typically sits in budget-to-mid range territory — worth confirming before trading for it.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.