Hunt for Specimens
- Mana cost
- {1}{B}
- Type
- Sorcery
- Set
- Strixhaven: School of Mages #73 (common)
- Price
- $0.16 USD
Create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life."
Learn. (You may reveal a Lesson card you own from outside the game and put it into your hand, or discard a card to draw a card.)
Hunt for Specimens has 1 printing, first in Strixhaven: School of Mages (2021). EDHREC ranks it #18,457 among Commander cards. It appears most in Dina, Soul Steeper decks (716 on EDHREC). It has 4 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Hunt for Specimens most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Dina, Soul Steeper: 716 decks
- Blech, Loafing Pest: 628 decks
- Blex, Vexing Pest // Search for Blex: 60 decks
- Valentin, Dean of the Vein // Lisette, Dean of the Root: 50 decks
- Mabel, Bitter Recluse: 1 decks
- Lluwen, Exchange Student // Pest Friend
Often played with Hunt for Specimens
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : If instructed to learn, you may do nothing. Discarding a card and putting a Lesson card into your hand are both optional.
- : If you bring a card into the game from outside the game in a Sealed Deck or Booster Draft event, you may select only a card that is in the card pool that you built your deck from.
- : If a card is brought into the game from outside the game, it will stay in the game until it ends or until its owner leaves the game, whichever comes first.
- : If you bring a card into the game from outside the game in a Constructed tournament (or a Constructed game played under tournament conditions), you may select only a card from your sideboard. In casual Constructed games, the card comes from your collection.