Shepherding Spirits

Creature — Spirit

Flying
Plainscycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Plains card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

CMC
6
Mana cost
{4}{W}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
common
Set
Duskmourn: House of Horror
Price
$0.08
EDHREC rank
#18668
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Shepherding Spirits card art
Shepherding Spirits puts a token on the board and draws a card — two of Magic's most valuable resources stapled onto one spell. The cost is real: five mana at sorcery speed is a steep ask, and Ellie and Alan, Paleontologists is currently the only commander that makes the full package click.

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Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander
legacy
modern
pioneer
standard
vintage
pauper
oathbreaker

Shepherding Spirits is legal everywhere but earns its keep almost exclusively in Commander, where sorcery-speed token generation plus card draw is a fine rate at any table running a token-synergy commander. In competitive 60-card formats — Modern, Pioneer, Standard — five mana for a 3/3 and a draw is several turns too slow; faster, cheaper token producers dominate those queues. Pauper is the one other format where it could theoretically see play, but the same speed problem applies and better common-rarity options exist.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.08 bulk tier

At $0.08, Shepherding Spirits is deep bulk — you're picking this out of a dollar box or grabbing a playset for pocket change. Bulk rares with narrow synergy rarely climb without a breakout deck, so don't expect movement unless Dinosaur tokens become a competitive archetype.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.