Meng Huo's Horde
Creature — Human Soldier
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Portal Three Kingdoms
- Price
- $1.41
- EDHREC rank
- #30378
Meng Huo's Horde drops a 5/4 trample body alongside two 1/1 tokens for five mana — above-rate board presence in green that rewards you for going wide before you've even swung. The trample on the main body means it punches through chump blockers, making this more than a token generator stapled to a vanilla creature.
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 |
Meng Huo's Horde is a Commander card through and through — five mana for three bodies with trample is slow for Legacy or Vintage, where it's technically legal but would never see a sleeve. In pauper it's legal but competes with hyper-efficient commons that do more for less. Commander is where the math works: token synergies, aristocrats payoffs, and go-wide strategies all want exactly what Meng Huo's Horde provides, and five mana is unremarkable in a format where turns seven and eight are normal.
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Price Context
Current price
$1.41 cheap tier
At $1.41, Meng Huo's Horde sits in impulse-buy territory — you're not making a financial decision, you're making a deck decision. Demand is narrow enough that the price is unlikely to spike, so grab it when you need it and don't worry about timing.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.