Huatli's Spurring
Instant
Target creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn. If you control a Huatli planeswalker, that creature gets +4/+0 until end of turn instead.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Ixalan
- Price
- $0.16
- EDHREC rank
- #28214
Huatli's Spurring gives a creature +3/+3 and trample until end of turn for one green mana — that's a premium rate for a combat trick. It's a strict role-player, but in any deck that wins through creature combat, this overperforms its price tag.
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 |
Huatli's Spurring is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it only meaningfully shows up in Commander, where combat-focused creature decks can exploit it most. In Modern and Pioneer, one-shot pump spells compete against more versatile options and rarely make the cut outside of dedicated aggro or infect shells. Legacy and Vintage are too fast and too spell-dense for a sorcery-speed-adjacent combat trick to matter. Commander is the real home — one green mana for +3/+3 and trample until end of turn lines up cleanly with go-wide or Voltron strategies where a single unblocked creature ends the game.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.16 bulk tier
At $0.16, Huatli's Spurring is deep bulk — you're picking it up as throw-in. At that price there's no financial case to make; just grab the copies you need and don't think twice.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.