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Howl of the Horde

Sorcery

When you next cast an instant or sorcery spell this turn, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.
Raid — If you attacked this turn, when you next cast an instant or sorcery spell this turn, copy that spell an additional time. You may choose new targets for the copy.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
rare
Set
Khans of Tarkir
Price
$0.24
EDHREC rank
#13266
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Howl of the Horde card art
Howl of the Horde copies the next instant or sorcery you cast once by default — but raid turns that into two copies, tripling your spell for three mana when you attacked this turn. In Anhelo, the Painter and similar spellslinger shells, that's a routine setup that scales absurdly with any bomb sorcery or game-ending instant.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where Howl of the Horde does its best work — attack with any creature, then use it as a triple-spell engine on a finisher, and the game usually ends. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but competes with more efficient copy effects like Fork and Reverberate, so it rarely makes the cut. Modern and Pioneer offer fewer broken sorceries to abuse, and raid isn't reliably online without a dedicated creature plan, making it a fringe choice at best in those formats. Howl of the Horde is fundamentally a Commander card: the singleton format rewards high-ceiling one-ofs, and a three-mana spell that can triple a Torment of Hailfire or Villainous Wealth is exactly that.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.24 bulk tier

At $0.24, Howl of the Horde is deep bulk — you'll find it in a commons box or pick up a playset for under a dollar. The price is unlikely to move much given the card's narrow home, but that narrow home is Commander, where demand is steady enough to keep it from going lower.

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