Hunting Cheetah
Creature — Cat
Whenever this creature deals damage to an opponent, you may search your library for a Forest card, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Portal Three Kingdoms
- Price
- $41.35
- EDHREC rank
- #22088
Hunting Cheetah is a two-mana 2/1 with forestwalk and a triggered ability that fetches a Forest when it deals combat damage to a player — reasonable landfall fuel and evasion in one body. The problem is that both halves require opponents to cooperate: forestwalk is irrelevant without green opponents, and the land fetch only fires if the damage connects.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Hunting Cheetah sees essentially no competitive play in Legacy or Vintage — two-mana creatures need to do far more than conditionally find a basic land. Pauper is where the card is legal and theoretically most at home, but even there green ramp has better options that don't depend on the opponent running Forests. In Commander, the only real home is a landfall or Forest-tribal deck that can guarantee relevant forestwalk targets — think heavy-green pods — but at that point you're running it as a roleplayer, not an engine piece.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
If the land-fetch trigger is the draw, Farhaven Elf and Elvish Visionary get you a body plus value without any combat-damage condition attached. Hunting Cheetah offers a repeatable fetch in theory, but the evasion dependency makes the repeat rarely materialize — either of those commons delivers more consistent payoff for a fraction of the price.
Price Context
Current price
$41.35 premium tier
At $41.35, Hunting Cheetah sits in premium territory driven entirely by scarcity — it's a Portal: Three Kingdoms card with a tiny print run, not a powerful one. The price reflects collector demand rather than gameplay value, so if you're buying to play with it, you're massively overpaying for what the card actually does on the table.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.