Pack's Betrayal
Sorcery
Gain control of target creature until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn. If you control a Wolf or Werewolf, scry 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Innistrad: Double Feature
- Price
- $0.18
- EDHREC rank
- #14941
Pack's Betrayal lets you steal creatures from any opponent's graveyard — not just one — for three mana at instant speed, turning their board wipes and removal spells into your army. The cost is narrow tribal dependency: every creature you reanimate has to be a Wolf or Werewolf, so outside of that archetype this card does nothing.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Tovolar, Dire Overlord
Tovolar, Dire Overlord draws cards off Wolves you control and flips Werewolves aggressively, so Pack's Betrayal pulling multiple Wolf bodies back from any graveyard feeds that engine directly while recovering from a board wipe in a single instant-speed move.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Pack's Betrayal is a Commander card, full stop. In 60-card formats the graveyard payoff is real but the tribal restriction makes it unplayable outside fringe Wolf tribal builds, and those decks have faster, more reliable reanimation options anyway. Pauper is its only competitive-adjacent home at common, but Wolf tribal lacks the density there to make it worth a slot. In Commander, three opponents mean three graveyards to pillage, and a single sweeper from any player can set up a Pack's Betrayal blowout that replaces your entire board — that's the context that makes it worth including.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.18 bulk tier
At $0.18, Pack's Betrayal is pure bulk — you'll find it in common boxes or pick it up as throw-in fodder. Demand is narrow enough that the price is unlikely to climb unless Wolf tribal breaks out as an archetype, so treat it as a cheap role-player you grab when building the deck, not a spec.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Tovolar, Dire Overlord
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.