Spectral Hunt-Caller
Creature — Wolf Spirit
: Creatures you control get +1/+1 and gain trample until end of turn.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Jumpstart 2022
- Price
- $0.08
- EDHREC rank
- #23324
Spectral Hunt-Caller gives a creature haste for the turn at the cost of exiling itself from your graveyard — a one-time speed boost that asks nothing of your mana. It's a narrow role-player that earns its slot only if your deck is actively looting creatures into the bin and needs that haste without spending a card from hand.
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 |
In Commander, Spectral Hunt-Caller is a graveyard-matters utility piece — it does nothing from hand and only activates once the self-mill or discard engine is running, which limits its ceiling in fair builds but makes it quietly effective in reanimator and cycling shells where the graveyard is already a resource. Pauper is the format where Spectral Hunt-Caller has the most structural fit, since common-legal haste enablers are scarce and graveyard-fueling cards are abundant. Legacy and Vintage are legal but uninterested — the effect is too incremental at those power levels to compete for a slot.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.08 bulk tier
At $0.08, Spectral Hunt-Caller is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard and postage, not the effect. Bulk commons rarely move on price unless a deck or format breaks them out, and nothing on the horizon suggests that for this card.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.