Tracker's Instincts
Sorcery
Reveal the top four cards of your library. Put a creature card from among them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.
Flashback 
(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GU
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Dark Ascension
- Price
- $0.24
- EDHREC rank
- #21461
Tracker's Instincts digs four cards deep and puts a creature in hand for two mana, then flashbacks for one green to repeat the selection — that's two creatures found for three total mana across two turns. It's a real card in creature-dense green decks and a bulk rare that punches above its price.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Tracker's Instincts earns its slot in creature-heavy green decks — two mana to see four cards is real selection, and the flashback means a single copy does the work of roughly 1.5 draw spells. Legacy and Vintage are legal but irrelevant; the card has never made a dent in those formats and won't. Modern is legal but similarly unplayed, where two mana buys faster and more unconditional draw. Oathbreaker gives it the same home as Commander — green creature shells where the flashback scales well — and that's where Tracker's Instincts does its actual work.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.24 bulk tier
At $0.24, Tracker's Instincts sits firmly in bulk territory and is unlikely to move — it sees modest Commander play but not enough demand to push the price. Pick it up freely; the risk is zero and it overdelivers for the cost.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.