Trumpeting Herd
Sorcery
Create a 3/3 green Elephant creature token.
Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Jumpstart: Historic Horizons
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #24142
Trumpeting Herd puts three power across two bodies for three mana — that's efficient rate, and the second 3/3 from retrace means the card keeps generating value as long as you have lands to pitch. It's a staple in token and go-wide strategies that can exploit the retrace clause, and it earns its slot in any Commander deck built to abuse ETB effects or sacrifice fodder.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Trumpeting Herd is best understood as a repeatable token engine: retrace lets you trade late-game land flood into 3/3 elephants, which scales well in a format where games go long and board presence matters. Pauper is where Trumpeting Herd sees its most competitive play — common-only card pools elevate efficient, repeatable token generation, and three power per cast is real in that context. Legacy and Vintage are legal but uninterested; the card is too slow and too fair for formats defined by turn-one and turn-two kills. Oathbreaker parallels Commander closely, rewarding the same ETB and go-wide commanders that want it there.
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Price Context
Current price
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Pricing data for Trumpeting Herd isn't available in the current feed, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the live number. Given its Pauper and Commander demand, it tends to be an easy pickup — don't expect to pay more than a dollar or two for a copy.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.