Leori, Sparktouched Hunter
Legendary Creature — Elemental Cat
Flying, vigilance
Whenever Leori deals combat damage to a player, choose a planeswalker type. Until end of turn, whenever you activate an ability of a planeswalker of that type, copy that ability. You may choose new targets for the copies.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- RUW
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Commander Masters
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #11238
Leori, Sparktouched Hunter locks opponents out of activating planeswalker abilities by taxing each activation with a mana payment — in a dedicated superfriends build, that asymmetry shuts down tables. Commodore Guff is the natural home, and in that shell Leori, Sparktouched Hunter earns its slot immediately.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Commodore Guff
Commodore Guff runs a planeswalker-dense engine where Leori, Sparktouched Hunter's tax hits opponents hard while leaving your own walkers untouched — 65% of Guff decks already run it, and the synergy score of 0.64 reflects just how cleanly it fits the strategy.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Leori, Sparktouched Hunter is a Commander card through and through — the planeswalker-taxing effect only reaches its ceiling in a 100-card singleton format where superfriends strategies have the space and redundancy to exploit it. Legacy and Vintage legality is technically real, but planeswalkers are niche enough in those formats that the ability rarely applies at meaningful rate. Oathbreaker is the one exception worth noting: a planeswalker-heavy Oathbreaker pod is exactly where Leori, Sparktouched Hunter punishes opponents most efficiently, since the format is built around walker ultimates.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Price data for Leori, Sparktouched Hunter isn't currently available, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the latest market rate before buying. Given its narrow role in superfriends Commander builds, it tends to be a low-demand single — expect a budget-friendly pickup unless a high-profile deck list spikes demand.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.