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Horn of Gondor

Legendary Artifact

When Horn of Gondor enters, create a 1/1 white Human Soldier creature token.
{3}, {T}: Create X 1/1 white Human Soldier creature tokens, where X is the number of Humans you control.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{3}
Color identity
C
Rarity
rare
Set
The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth
Price
$5.11
EDHREC rank
#1896
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Horn of Gondor card art
Horn of Gondor turns every Human you control into a token factory — attack with a board, untap with a bigger one. The three-mana equip cost is real, but Clock of Omens lets you untap it for free, and in any Éowyn, Shieldmaiden deck the card effectively runs itself.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Éowyn, Shieldmaiden

Éowyn, Shieldmaiden

69.6% of decks · synergy 0.65

Éowyn, Shieldmaiden triggers Horn of Gondor on nearly every attack, and the Human tokens Horn produces feed right back into her own ability, creating a compounding loop that snowballs fast.

02
Silvar, Devourer of the FreeTrynn, Champion of Freedom

Silvar, Devourer of the Free // Trynn, Champion of Freedom

67.7% of decks · synergy 0.64

Trynn already generates a Human token on attacks, and Horn of Gondor doubles that output — Silvar, Devourer of the Free // Trynn, Champion of Freedom runs this in over two-thirds of its builds because the token flood is the deck's entire game plan.

03
Commander Mustard

Commander Mustard

66.1% of decks · synergy 0.64

Commander Mustard rewards going wide with Humans, and Horn of Gondor ensures that every swing leaves the board larger than it started — the two pieces reinforce each other turn after turn.

05
Kyler, Sigardian Emissary

Kyler, Sigardian Emissary

66.0% of decks · synergy 0.62

Every Human token Horn of Gondor generates is another counter on Kyler, Sigardian Emissary, turning a token engine into a stat engine and closing games faster than either piece would alone.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Horn of Gondor is a Commander card through and through — the token snowball it enables needs multiple combat steps and a board full of Humans to pay off, which is exactly what a 100-card singleton game provides. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but functionally irrelevant; those formats close too fast for a three-mana artifact with an equip cost to matter. Oathbreaker gives it a slightly faster environment than Commander but the same tribal-token logic applies, so it sees occasional play there. Ignore every other format — Horn of Gondor's home is EDH.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

8 decks
Horn of GondorClock of OmensBiotransferenceAshnod's Altar

Horn of GondorClock of OmensBiotransferenceAshnod's Altar

Infinite colorless mana; Infinite creature tokens; Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite mana artifacts you control can produce; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce; Infinite untap of artifacts you control; Infinite untap of creatures you control

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6 decks
Horn of GondorClock of OmensBiotransferenceKrark-Clan Ironworks

Horn of GondorClock of OmensBiotransferenceKrark-Clan Ironworks

Infinite colorless mana; Infinite creature tokens; Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite mana artifacts you control can produce; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite untap of artifacts you control; Infinite untap of creatures you control; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce

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Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

Cathar's Call and Assemble the Legion both produce tokens repeatedly without requiring an equipped creature, and either comes in well under a dollar. Neither rewards you specifically for attacking with Humans the way Horn of Gondor does, so you're trading the combat-trigger synergy for reliability — worth it only if your build isn't already leaning hard on the attack step.

Price Context

Current price

$5.11 mid tier

At $5.11, Horn of Gondor sits in mid-tier territory — cheap enough to slot into any Human tribal build without budget guilt, expensive enough that you'll want to confirm the deck actually rewards it before buying. It holds that price because the demand is genuine and concentrated in Éowyn and Human-tribal commanders, not because of casual hype.

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