Hunting Pack
Instant
Create a 4/4 green Beast creature token.
Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn.)
- CMC
- 7
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Commander 2020
- Price
- $0.06
- EDHREC rank
- #14531
Hunting Pack puts a 4/4 token on the board for each card in your hand — in the right shell, that's four to six bodies from a single spell. The cost is steep at seven mana with storm, so it earns its slot only if you're consistently casting multiple spells before it lands.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Hunting Pack is a Commander card — full stop. The format's slower clock, larger hand sizes, and group-slug dynamics are the only environment where paying seven mana for a storm token payoff is reasonable. In Legacy or Vintage, storm decks kill on the stack before Hunting Pack could ever resolve, and seven mana is a number those formats simply never reach. Modern is technically legal but practically irrelevant for the same reason; any deck with the cantrip density to fuel Hunting Pack has cheaper and more reliable ways to end the game. In Commander, it belongs in dedicated spell-storm or high-density cantrip builds where storm counts of four-plus are routine — anywhere else in the format it's just an overcosted token spell.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.06 bulk tier
At $0.06, Hunting Pack is deep bulk — the kind of card you pick out of a dollar bin without thinking twice. It won't hold or gain value, but it doesn't need to; the price makes it a zero-risk inclusion for any Commander player building toward the right shell.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.