Pack Hunt
Sorcery
Search your library for up to three cards with the same name as target creature, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Nemesis
- Price
- $0.48
- EDHREC rank
- #23122
Pack Hunt tutors up to three copies of any creature already on your battlefield, putting them directly into your hand for five mana — a massive card-advantage swing in any deck that runs redundant creatures. It's a niche but powerful effect, and in the right shell it outperforms most green draw spells outright.
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 |
Pack Hunt is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but its design is almost entirely Commander-specific. In Legacy and Vintage the singleton-adjacent nature of those formats and the availability of better tutors make it unplayable; no competitive list wants a five-mana sorcery that requires a creature already in play. Commander is where Pack Hunt earns its keep — tribal decks and creature-combo shells that deliberately run four copies of key pieces turn it into a five-mana draw-three with no card-quality ceiling. In Oathbreaker it's legal but the 60-card format's faster clock makes the five-mana investment harder to justify.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.48 bulk tier
At $0.48, Pack Hunt is firmly bulk — a price that reflects its narrow tribal application rather than any deficiency in power. It's unlikely to spike unless a marquee Goblin or Bear commander pushes tribal into the competitive spotlight, so pick it up cheap now if the shell fits.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.