Patrol Hound
Creature — Dog
Discard a card: This creature gains first strike until end of turn.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Odyssey
- Price
- $0.29
- EDHREC rank
- #25860
Patrol Hound is a 2/2 with first strike that costs a card from hand to gain that first strike — a real cost on a vanilla-statted body. It's a bulk common for a reason, and nothing in its text box changes that verdict.
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 |
Patrol Hound is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legality and playability are different conversations. In Pauper it competes with strictly better two-drops that don't ask you to pitch cards for a conditional keyword. In Commander, a 2/2 for two with no enters-the-battlefield effect and a hand-cost activation has no realistic home — the format's power floor is simply too high. Legacy and Vintage ignore Patrol Hound entirely.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.29 bulk tier
At $0.29, Patrol Hound is deep bulk — the kind of card that fills out a dime box at a local game store. Don't expect that price to move in any direction; there is no demand pressure to drive it.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.