Ravaging Horde
Creature — Human Soldier
When this creature enters, destroy target land.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Portal Three Kingdoms
- Price
- $17.60
- EDHREC rank
- #29499
Ravaging Horde puts a swarm of 1/1 Human tokens onto the battlefield the turn it resolves, then gives your whole team a power boost — immediate board presence and a lord effect in one card. Seven mana is steep, but the payoff is real in any deck that wants a critical mass of bodies at instant speed.
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 |
Ravaging Horde is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but Legacy and Vintage have no interest in a seven-mana token generator when faster, cheaper options dominate those formats. Commander is the natural home — seven mana is reachable with ramp, and the combination of board flood and anthem effect lines up cleanly with go-wide strategies. Oathbreaker can support it in the right shell, though the 60-card singleton constraint makes it harder to build around consistently.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
If seven mana is too much, Militia's Pride and Decree of Justice produce Human or Soldier tokens at a fraction of the cost and curve more naturally into midgame. Ravaging Horde bundles the token generation and the pump into a single card, which is its main advantage over splitting the job across two cheaper pieces.
Price Context
Current price
$17.60 mid tier
At $17.60, Ravaging Horde sits in the mid tier — meaningful spend for what is ultimately a niche Commander card with a narrow power level ceiling. It holds value primarily through low reprint likelihood and collector demand rather than competitive ubiquity, so only pick it up if it fits a specific deck you're actively building.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.