Howl of the Night Pack
Sorcery
Create a 2/2 green Wolf creature token for each Forest you control.
- CMC
- 7
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Secret Lair Drop
- Price
- $2.10
- EDHREC rank
- #10284
Howl of the Night Pack drops a Wolf token for every Forest you control — in a dedicated mono-green deck, that's easily eight to twelve bodies at instant speed for seven mana. Ruxa, Patient Professor decks are the natural home, where vanilla Wolves get the full buff treatment and the token count regularly ends games on the spot.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Ruxa, Patient Professor
Ruxa, Patient Professor buffs creatures with no abilities, and the Wolf tokens from Howl of the Night Pack are exactly that — a mass of vanilla 2/2s that immediately inherit Ruxa's anthem and trample grants, turning a single spell into a lethal swarm.
Tovolar, Dire Overlord
Tovolar, Dire Overlord cares about Wolves and Werewolves entering and attacking, so the wave of Wolf tokens Howl of the Night Pack generates both triggers Tovolar's card draw condition and floods the board for a wide alpha strike.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Howl of the Night Pack lives and dies in Commander, where mono-green ramp decks routinely hit fifteen-plus Forests and where seven mana is reachable by turn four or five. In Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer it's legal but unplayable — seven mana for tokens with no immediate board protection doesn't compete in formats where the game ends before you untap. Oathbreaker is the one exception worth mentioning: a green planeswalker with enough ramp can fire this off as a signature spell for a game-ending token flood, though the competition for that slot is stiff.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$2.10 cheap tier
At $2.10, Howl of the Night Pack sits in the cheap tier and is a fair price for a niche card that only truly performs in one archetype. It's unlikely to spike without a pushed Wolf or Forest-matters commander, so there's no urgency to buy in bulk — one copy is all any deck ever needs.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Ruxa, Patient Professor
- Tovolar, Dire Overlord
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.