Hunted Witness

Creature — Human

When this creature dies, create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token with lifelink.

CMC
1
Mana cost
{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
common
Set
Guilds of Ravnica
Price
$0.25
EDHREC rank
#7512
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Hunted Witness card art
Hunted Witness dies and hands you a 1/1 Lifelink token — two bodies for one mana, no conditions attached. Under Teysa Karlov, that death trigger fires twice, making it one of the most efficient sacrifice fodder pieces in white.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Teysa Karlov

Teysa Karlov

38.5% of decks · synergy 0.35

Teysa Karlov doubles death triggers, so when Hunted Witness dies it produces two Lifelink tokens instead of one — that's three bodies total from a single white mana, which is the kind of math that breaks sacrifice loops.

02

Extus, Oriq Overlord

19.2% of decks · synergy 0.19

Extus, Oriq Overlord wants cheap humans to sacrifice and recur, and Hunted Witness fits both criteria — it's a human, it costs one mana, and the token it leaves behind gives you another sacrifice target for the next loop.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander
legacy
modern
pioneer
standard
vintage
pauper
oathbreaker

In Commander, Hunted Witness is a role-player, not a headliner — it earns its slot exclusively in sacrifice and death-trigger shells where the token matters as much as the creature. In Pauper it's a legitimate piece, providing two bodies at common in token-aristocrats strategies that need cheap fodder to fuel Altars and Carrion Feeders. Modern and Pioneer have enough redundancy at one mana that Hunted Witness rarely makes the cut outside of fringe sacrifice brews — Doomed Traveler does nearly the same job and has more established support. Legacy and Vintage are too fast for a 1/1 that needs to die to matter.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.25 bulk tier

At $0.25, Hunted Witness is firmly bulk — easy to pick up in any trade binder or as a throw-in. Bulk one-drops with niche applications rarely climb unless a new commander pushes the archetype hard, so treat it as a cheap functional piece rather than anything to spec on.

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