Unconventional Tactics
Sorcery
Target creature gets +3/+3 and gains flying until end of turn.
Whenever a Zombie you control enters, you may pay 
. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Hour of Devastation
- Price
- $0.19
- EDHREC rank
- #25287
Unconventional Tactics gives a creature +3/+3 and flying until end of turn for one white mana, with a built-in buyback whenever a creature enters under your control. In token and weenie strategies, that recursion turns a one-shot pump into a repeatable combat threat that opponents can't plan around.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Unconventional Tactics is narrowly built for token strategies, and Commander is where those strategies have the most support and the longest games to exploit the buyback. In Modern and Pioneer it's legal but competes with more efficient pump spells that don't ask you to build around the recursion clause. Legacy's card pool is deep enough that the slot is nearly always better filled, and the card sees no meaningful play there. Commander is the clear home: a single copy does real work in any token shell, and the buyback means you're rarely sad to draw it in the mid or late game.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.19 bulk tier
At $0.19, Unconventional Tactics is firmly bulk — the kind of card you pick up as an afterthought in a trade binder. The price reflects its narrow range of decks that want it, so don't expect movement unless a token commander spikes in popularity and pulls demand with it.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.