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Snarling Gorehound

Creature — Dog

Menace
Whenever another creature you control with power 2 or less enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

CMC
1
Mana cost
{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
common
Set
Murders at Karlov Manor
Price
$1.02
EDHREC rank
#4922
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Snarling Gorehound card art
Snarling Gorehound puts a self-replacing threat on the board — when it dies, you mill four and draw a card, meaning it trades up in card advantage even against a removal spell. Decks like Insidious Roots and Sidisi, Brood Tyrant treat it as a two-mana engine piece, not a creature, and that framing is the right one.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Sidisi, Brood Tyrant

Sidisi, Brood Tyrant

47.5% of decks · synergy 0.46

Sidisi, Brood Tyrant mills on attack and rewards every creature hitting the graveyard with a Zombie token, so Snarling Gorehound's death trigger — mill four, draw one — feeds both halves of that engine simultaneously.

02
Mirko, Obsessive Theorist

Mirko, Obsessive Theorist

26.1% of decks · synergy 0.25

Mirko, Obsessive Theorist cares about opponents' libraries hitting zero, and Snarling Gorehound's recurring mill-four on death plugs directly into that plan while replacing itself so the engine keeps moving.

03
Alesha, Who Smiles at Death

Alesha, Who Smiles at Death

24.4% of decks · synergy 0.24

Alesha, Who Smiles at Death recurs creatures with power two or less from the graveyard, and Snarling Gorehound's two power puts it squarely in reanimation range — die, mill four, come back next turn and do it again.

04
Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor

Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor

25.0% of decks · synergy 0.24

Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor rewards attacking creatures with card draw, and Snarling Gorehound adds a second draw trigger on death, giving the deck redundant card advantage on a single cheap body.

05
Lurrus of the Dream-Den

Lurrus of the Dream-Den

20.3% of decks · synergy 0.19

Lurrus of the Dream-Den's companion clause lets you replay permanents with mana value two or less each turn, and Snarling Gorehound is a two-mana permanent that actively wants to die and be replayed for repeated mill and draw.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard legal
vintage legal
pauper legal
oathbreaker legal

In Commander, Snarling Gorehound earns its slot in any graveyard-matters deck that wants self-replacing threats — the death trigger is free card advantage at a cost most tables barely notice. In competitive 1v1 formats like Modern and Pioneer, it sits on the fringe: self-mill payoffs need to be faster or more explosive to matter, and two mana for a 2/1 with a delayed draw is a tough sell when the format punishes tempo losses. Legacy and Vintage have too many stronger engines to care. Pauper is where Snarling Gorehound has real potential outside Commander — common-legal self-mill decks want cheap creatures that generate value on death, and this one does exactly that.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$1.02 cheap tier

At $1.02, Snarling Gorehound sits in the budget-staple tier — cheap enough to throw into any graveyard pile without deliberation. The price is stable; it's not a spec target, but it's also not going anywhere when it's a reliable role-player in multiple archetypes.

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