Hunter's Blowgun
Artifact — Equipment
Equipped creature gets +1/+1.
Equipped creature has deathtouch during your turn. Otherwise, it has reach.
Equip 
(: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The Lost Caverns of Ixalan
- Price
- $0.31
- EDHREC rank
- #7159
Hunter's Blowgun puts a deathtouch counter on any creature you control at instant speed — one mana, no hoops, repeatable every turn. For Kelsien, the Plague specifically, that means your commander becomes a tap-to-kill engine the moment the counter lands.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Kelsien, the Plague
Kelsien, the Plague needs deathtouch to convert its tap ability into unconditional removal, and Hunter's Blowgun delivers that counter on demand, at instant speed, for a single mana — it's the most efficient deathtouch enabler the deck has access to.
Odric, Lunarch Marshal
Odric, Lunarch Marshal copies keywords to your whole board at the start of combat, so a single creature carrying a deathtouch counter from Hunter's Blowgun blankets every attacker you swing with — one artifact pulling weight for the entire team.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Hunter's Blowgun is a Commander card through and through — the repeatable, instant-speed deathtouch counter is exactly the kind of incremental value that compounds over a long game, and the artifact type means it slots into any color identity. In 60-card formats it's too slow and too situational; deathtouch synergies in Modern or Pioneer have faster, more permanent enablers. Pauper is the one competitive format where a cheap artifact with this effect could theoretically appear in a deathtouch-based attrition shell, but no such archetype has established itself. Stay in Commander.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.31 bulk tier
At $0.31, Hunter's Blowgun is bulk — you're not paying a premium for its effect, and there's no pressure to pick it up in a hurry. Bulk rares and uncommons with narrow homes rarely move in price unless a new commander breaks them out, so expect it to stay in this range.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.