Warm Welcome
Instant
Look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal a creature card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. Create a 1/1 green and white Citizen creature token.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Streets of New Capenna
- Price
- $0.14
- EDHREC rank
- #20753
Warm Welcome puts a 1/1 Squirrel token into play and draws you a card for three mana at instant speed — the whole package lands at sorcery-speed rate but with flash upside. It's a solid role-player in token or go-wide strategies, nothing more.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Warm Welcome earns its slot in token-focused or Squirrel-tribal builds because it replaces itself and leaves a body, clearing the minimum bar for three-mana plays. Outside Commander, the case gets harder: Pauper has access to efficient one- and two-mana cantrips that make a three-mana sorcery-rate instant look slow, and competitive Legacy and Vintage have no interest in a 1/1 token at any cost. Modern and Pioneer are legal but effectively irrelevant — no constructed strategy there wants this effect at this speed for this cost. Warm Welcome is a Commander card through and through.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.14 bulk tier
At $0.14, Warm Welcome is pure bulk — grab a copy out of a common bin without thinking twice. Bulk token-cantrips rarely spike, so don't expect the price to move unless Squirrel tribal gets a marquee commander pushed in a future precon.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.