Herald's Horn
Artifact
As this artifact enters, choose a creature type.
Creature spells you cast of the chosen type cost less to cast.
At the beginning of your upkeep, look at the top card of your library. If it's a creature card of the chosen type, you may reveal it and put it into your hand.
- CommanderLegal
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernNot legal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- PauperNot legal
#151 on EDHREC's list of the most played Commander cards (as of October 16, 2026).
Selling Herald's Horn?
We pay 50% of a card's market value in cash, or 70% in store credit, for cards worth more than $1. For the cheapest printing of Herald's Horn, that's about $1.41 cash or $1.97 in credit.
All 15 printings and prices
| Set | # | Released | Nonfoil | Foil |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Foundations Commander FDC | 264 | Oct 2026 | $4.85 | – |
| Marvel Super Heroes Commander MSC | 287 | Jun 2026 | $2.81 | – |
| Final Fantasy Commander FIC | 228 | Jun 2025 | – | $5.89 |
| Modern Horizons 3 Commander M3C | 296 | Jun 2024 | $5.74 | – |
| The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander LCC | 304 | Nov 2023 | $5.35 | – |
| Commander Masters CMM | 953 | Aug 2023 | $6.30 | – |
| Tales of Middle-earth Commander LTC | 280 | Jun 2023 | $5.41 | – |
| March of the Machine Commander MOC | 360 | Apr 2023 | $6.30 | – |
| Warhammer 40,000 Commander 40K | 241★ | Oct 2022 | – | $10.05 |
| Warhammer 40,000 Commander 40K | 241 | Oct 2022 | $5.72 | – |
| Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate CLB | 862 | Jun 2022 | $5.96 | – |
| Year of the Tiger 2022 PL22 | 5 | Feb 2022 | – | $24.01 |
| The List PLST | C17-53 | Feb 2021 | $6.26 | – |
| Jumpstart JMP | 469 | Jul 2020 | $5.36 | – |
| Commander 2017 C17 | 53 | Aug 2017 | $5.51 | – |
TCGplayer market, near mint, Oct 16, 2026.
Rulings
If you somehow control a Herald's Horn with no chosen creature type, no spells will cost less to cast, not even creature spells with no creature type. You'll be able to look at the top card of your library at the beginning of each of your upkeeps, but you can never put it into your hand this way, even if it's a creature card with no creature type.
You can't choose multiple creature types, such as "Cat Warrior." A Cat Warrior is both a Cat and a Warrior. It's affected by anything that affects either type and unaffected by things that affect non-Cat or non-Warrior creatures.
If you don't put the top card of your library into your hand, you put it back on top of your library without revealing it. You'll draw it in that turn's draw step.
To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost you're paying, add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. The mana value of the spell remains unchanged, no matter what the total cost to cast it was.
You must choose an existing creature type, such as Vampire or Cat. Card types such as "artifact" can't be chosen.
The effect of Herald's Horn reduces only generic mana in a spell's cost. If that cost has no generic mana, the cost isn't reduced.
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