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Wild Cantor

Creature — Human Druid

({R/G} can be paid with either {R} or {G}.)
Sacrifice this creature: Add one mana of any color.

CMC
1
Mana cost
{R/G}
Color identity
GR
Rarity
common
Set
Ravnica Remastered
Price
$0.21
EDHREC rank
#7782
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Wild Cantor card art
Wild Cantor is a sacrifice-ready mana fixer that pays for itself the moment it hits the battlefield — one mana in, one mana of any color out, and a free trigger for anything that cares about creatures dying. Korvold, Fae-Cursed King turns that trade into a free card and a +1/+1 counter, and Flubs, the Fool runs it as a reliable one-drop that fuels the graveyard engine without taxing the resource base.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Flubs, the Fool

Flubs, the Fool

17.5% of decks · synergy 0.15

Flubs, the Fool wants cheap creatures that die on demand, and Wild Cantor fills both roles — it fixes mana on entry and sacrifices cleanly into whatever Flubs needs to trigger next, all for a single hybrid pip that costs almost nothing to slot in.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper legal
oathbreaker legal

In Commander, Wild Cantor earns its slot in any deck that wants sacrificeable bodies on demand — it smooths early mana while doubling as fodder for aristocrats payoffs, making it genuinely functional rather than just filler. Pauper is where it sees the most competitive use, primarily as a combo enabler in storm and Ad Nauseam shells that need cheap, flexible mana. In Legacy and Vintage, Wild Cantor has appeared in fringe combo decks, though faster and more powerful options crowd it out of most lists. Modern has the legal status but not the demand — there are simply better one-drop mana creatures in that format's card pool.

Key Combos

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Price Context

Current price

$0.21 bulk tier

At $0.21, Wild Cantor is deep bulk — the kind of card you pick up as an afterthought and never regret. Bulk rarely appreciates unless a new commander breaks the card wide open, so buy it for the deck, not the binder.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.