Hunger of the Howlpack
Instant
Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.
Morbid — Put three +1/+1 counters on that creature instead if a creature died this turn.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Conspiracy
- Price
- $0.10
- EDHREC rank
- #17527
Hunger of the Howlpack puts three +1/+1 counters on a creature for one mana when morbid triggers — that's an extraordinary rate that rivals anything in the format. Without a creature dying the same turn, it's a single counter for one mana, which is unplayable; the whole card lives and dies by your ability to feed it.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Hunger of the Howlpack is a Pauper staple where common-legal threats are smaller and one mana for three counters is genuinely game-warping in stompy or sacrifice shells. In Commander, it earns a slot only in dedicated counter-synergy or sacrifice-loop decks — the conditional nature of morbid is inconsistent across a long multiplayer game unless your commander reliably generates die triggers. Legacy, Vintage, and Modern all have access to it, but faster formats rarely want a conditional one-mana pump spell when threats need to close games on their own. Oathbreaker's smaller game size and lower life totals give morbid builds more room to operate, making Hunger of the Howlpack a reasonable inclusion there.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.10 bulk tier
At $0.10, Hunger of the Howlpack is pure bulk — pick up as many as you need without a second thought. That price is stable; a common with a narrow conditional does not have room to climb.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.