Tlincalli Hunter // Retrieve Prey
Creature — Scorpion Scout // Sorcery — Adventure
Trample
Once each turn, you may pay 
rather than pay the mana cost for a creature spell you cast from exile.
- CMC
- 7
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate
- Price
- $1.02
- EDHREC rank
- #5567
Tlincalli Hunter // Retrieve Prey puts a 4/3 reach body on the battlefield and staples a free creature search onto it — the payoff is immediate, and the adventure half means the card does useful work before the creature even enters. Beluna Grandsquall decks run it at over 83% inclusion because the adventure trigger is exactly what that engine wants, and that near-universal adoption is the clearest signal of how efficiently this card pulls its weight.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Beluna Grandsquall
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 |
Commander is where Tlincalli Hunter // Retrieve Prey lives — the singleton format rewards the card's flexibility, since Retrieve Prey fetches whatever creature the situation demands rather than a redundant copy of something you already have. The 83%-plus inclusion rate in Beluna Grandsquall decks shows how central adventure synergies have become in green-blue-red adventure shells, and the card's rate is genuinely good even stripped of any commander bonus: a 4/3 reach for four that cantrips into a creature is defensible on raw stats alone. Legacy and Vintage technically allow it, but those formats have no appetite for a four-mana adventure creature with no broken interaction attached. Oathbreaker can find uses for it in adventure-focused signatures, but the Commander table is the real home.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$1.02 cheap tier
At $1.02, Tlincalli Hunter // Retrieve Prey sits at a price that reflects broad casual demand without any speculative premium — it's cheap because supply is healthy, not because the card is weak. Given its near-universal inclusion in one of the more popular adventure commanders and solid play across several others, that dollar holds up fine as a long-term pick-up.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.