Hushbringer
Creature — Faerie
Flying, lifelink
Creatures entering or dying don't cause abilities to trigger.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Throne of Eldraine
- Price
- $4.28
- EDHREC rank
- #3706
Hushbringer shuts off every enters-the-battlefield and leaves-the-battlefield trigger on the board — including your opponents' commanders — for two mana with flying and lifelink attached. That's a backbreaking amount of text for a 1/2, and pairing it with Lavinia, Azorius Renegade or slotting it into an Intruder Alarm combo shell only sharpens the edge.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Lavinia, Azorius Renegade
Lavinia, Azorius Renegade shares the same axis of denying opponents free value, and Hushbringer seals off the ETB triggers that Lavinia's tax doesn't reach — together they create a soft lock that stops most creature-based strategies cold.
Grand Arbiter Augustin IV
Grand Arbiter Augustin IV builds a prison piece by piece, and Hushbringer contributes by blanking the ETB acceleration and value engines opponents rely on to claw back through the cost increases.
Sephara, Sky's Blade
Sephara, Sky's Blade cares about a board of flying creatures, and Hushbringer's evasion and lifelink let it contribute to that aerial count while its static ability keeps opponent creature combos offline.
Ellivere of the Wild Court
Ellivere of the Wild Court produces Rolelings that rely on entering the battlefield, but the bigger pull is protection — Hushbringer stops the ETB-based interaction and removal setups that would otherwise dismantle the Rolelings before they swing.
Odric, Lunarch Marshal
Odric, Lunarch Marshal distributes keywords at the start of combat, and Hushbringer's flying and lifelink are two of the most valuable keywords to spread while its suppression effect passively taxes creature-heavy opponents.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Hushbringer is a staple in stax and control builds — shutting off ETB triggers hits everything from Panharmonicon payoffs to the commander itself, and a 1/2 with flying and lifelink for two mana is incidentally useful on the board while it does that work. In competitive EDH, it's a real piece of the static-effect suite alongside Rule of Law and Drannith Magistrate. In Modern and Pioneer, the card is legal but niche — those formats run fast enough that a two-mana 1/2 with no immediate impact gets outpaced, though it earns sideboard consideration against flicker and persist strategies. Legacy and Vintage have more powerful disruption available, so Hushbringer largely goes unplayed there.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Satoru UmezawaPhage the UntouchableHushbringer
Target opponent loses the game
View on Commander Spellbook ↗Price Context
Current price
$4.28 cheap tier
At $4.28, Hushbringer sits in the cheap tier — reasonable for a Commander staple with this much text. It sees enough consistent demand across stax builds to hold that price without much volatility, so there's no urgency to speculate, but waiting for a reprint dip is realistic.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.