Wolf in _____ Clothing
Creature — Wolf Guest
When this creature enters, you may put a name sticker on it. When you do, up to X target creatures each get -1/-1 until end of turn, where X is the number of unique vowels on that sticker. (The vowels are A, E, I, O, U, and Y.)
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Unfinity
- Price
- $0.03
- EDHREC rank
- #29080
Wolf in _____ Clothing turns any creature into an 8/8 trampler at instant speed for a single green mana — the effect is enormous, the price is almost nothing. The catch is four real restrictions, but in Commander those restrictions shrink enough that the card earns a slot in the right shell.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | banned |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | banned |
| pauper | banned |
| oathbreaker | banned |
Wolf in _____ Clothing carries four restrictions: it can only target a creature with the greatest power among creatures you control, that creature must have power 4 or greater, the blank in the card name must be filled with a basic land type, and the effect is tied to a specific kind of tribal or land-type payoff. Those conditions are punishing in Legacy, Vintage, and Pauper — where the card is outright banned — because redundancy and consistency are everything and a conditional one-mana pump spell that whiffs on boards below the threshold is a liability. Commander gives it a pass for two reasons: games go longer, so hitting power 4 is routine rather than rare, and 100-card singleton doesn't demand the tight consistency that got it banned elsewhere. If your board already has a fat creature in play, Wolf in _____ Clothing is simply a one-mana instant-speed +8/+8 with trample, and that's good enough.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.03 bulk tier
At $0.03, Wolf in _____ Clothing is deep bulk — you're paying essentially nothing for a card with a real effect. Bulk rares and uncommons at this price floor don't recover unless a new card or commander sends demand spiking, so treat it as a cheap pickup, not a spec.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.