Horn of the Mark
Legendary Artifact
Whenever two or more creatures you control attack a player, look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal a creature card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth
- Price
- $0.66
- EDHREC rank
- #4033
Horn of the Mark turns every attacking creature into a token factory — each attacker that connects puts a 1/1 Human soldier onto the battlefield, snowballing your board the longer combat goes uncontested. At three mana with no activation cost, it demands an answer or it runs away with the game.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Éowyn, Shieldmaiden
Éowyn, Shieldmaiden's triggered abilities care about Human tokens and attacking creatures, so Horn of the Mark feeds both halves of her engine simultaneously — more attackers connecting means more tokens, which means more triggers on the next swing.
Wulfgar of Icewind Dale
Wulfgar of Icewind Dale doubles attack triggers, so Horn of the Mark fires twice per attacker that connects — one combat step can flood the board with tokens faster than most decks can answer.
Isshin, Two Heavens as One
Isshin, Two Heavens as One doubles every attack trigger, and Horn of the Mark is an attack trigger — each connecting creature generates two tokens instead of one, compounding exponentially across a wide board.
Aragorn, Hornburg Hero
Aragorn, Hornburg Hero rewards you for going wide with Humans, and Horn of the Mark is the most efficient engine for generating them mid-combat without spending extra mana.
Aurelia, the Law Above
Aurelia, the Law Above incentivizes attacking and taxing opponents, and Horn of the Mark turns that attacking pressure into a token army that grows each time her attack-trigger conditions fire.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Horn of the Mark is a Commander card — the 100-card singleton environment is where its slow, cumulative token generation has room to matter, and attack-trigger commanders give it a genuine home. In Legacy or Vintage it's legal but irrelevant; three mana for a do-nothing-until-combat artifact doesn't compete with those formats' speed. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander 60-card format where it could appear, but only in dedicated token or go-wide builds with a compatible planeswalker commander.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.66 bulk tier
At $0.66, Horn of the Mark is deep bulk — it costs less than a sleeve and should be in every attack-trigger Commander deck that can run it. Bulk rares with narrow appeal don't climb, so buy it now if you need it and don't expect the price to move.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.