Hunted Wumpus

Creature — Beast

When Hunted Wumpus enters the battlefield, each other player may put a creature card from their hand onto the battlefield.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Premodern	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (42)

Bread_my_Butter on Green Creatures with Weird Names

11 months ago

Hunted Wumpus

Mave on endles whispers edh

1 year ago

I read the thread when I tried to look up the rules for the cards which is kinda important for EDH Endless Whispers. (I plan on including it in Obeka)

In a 1v1 match it mostly tries to get the best creature of an opponent while donating negative effects. But in commander it becomes a game of "hot potato" where you can never be sure who gets the creatures of another player but you can decide what "garbage" you donate. That is the gist of what the deck will do in a multiplayer game.

Depending on what you give away you may want cards that can counter triggered abilities in case ove Leveler, Sky Swallower, Boldwyr Heavyweights, Eater of Days, Hunted Wumpus, Inverter of Truth, Dust Elemental, Avatar of Discord, Indentured Djinn Ebon Drake Plague Reaver Master of the Feast Tempting Wurm, the haunted one like Hunted Troll, Hunted Dragon,Hunted Dragon, Hunted Lammasu or Hunted Phantasm. Personally I would use Obeka, Brute Chronologist to counter the ETB of the creatures you play by ending the turn and then giving them to an opponent. But that only works for when the creature with negative effect enters the battlefield during your turn. But it is a great plan B in case you don't have Endless Whispers to give your opponents creatures from the list above by simply playing an 8/8 trample for {2}{R}{R} then ending the turn before the trigger resolves.

Other options are Jon Irenicus, Shattered One or Blim, Comedic Genius both want your opponents to control your creatures. If you just want the effect of giving your opponents negative ETBs you can also build a deck on The Beamtown Bullies. But including Endless Whispers in this deck can backfire by giving you one of the negative effects if the creature dies. And it also is hard to let e.g. Leveler enter the battlefield to donate it through endless whispers. What helps with that may be to manifest a creature with a negative effect with e.g. Scroll of Fate. You can also manifest creatures with negative effect from your library but that is a bit more random.

To prevent getting creatures with negative effects from your opponents you to gain hexproof. There are plenty of effects giving yourself hexproof in white but I couldn't find a good commander for that. To gain hexproof yourself in a non white deck you most likely need Orbs of Warding which may be the way to go to prevent opponents to return the hot potato to you. Which is what I do in Obeka (sadly I don't have any list online of that deck).

If you like Endless Whispers to take your opponent cards however you might rather want to play Grave Betrayal or Lim-Dul the Necromancer. Overall it can still be used as a politicle tool. Especially if you donate one of the Haunted once you can build a pact with another player that you always trade them with each other to get more and more tokens.

Talking tokens it is also possible to put Endless Whispers in Grismold, the Dreadsower which gets into the direction of Dagger Burn known through Rampaging Ferocidon, Trespasser's Curse, Massacre Wurm, Slaughter Specialist and e.g. Illness in the Ranks/Virulent Plague. Whenever you donate Hunted Troll to an opponent or it enters the battlefield you let the 1/1 faeris directly die causing Grismold to trigger and also cards like Poison-Tip Archer.

It is also possible to play with effects like Plaguecrafter, Abyssal Gorestalker, Gravelighter. The player who gets the creature has to sacrifice one creature less and choses who sacrifice one creature less the next turn. But as long as you profit from death triggers via e.g. enchantments or artifacts you will profit most from your favourite card.

I also like Rakdos the Defiler to use Endless Whisper. After all one can donate some negative effects and if the opponent sacrifices creatures they have to donate them to someone else. Altough that also works better in 1v1.

I hope the explanation helps to find the right deck to play Endless Whispers in Commander.

TogbusPrime on I HAVE TWO DADS...♡ [BUDGET PRIMER][ENABLER]

2 years ago

So Wheel and Deal immediately comes to mind as do the "Wheel of ___" cards, though I dunno what your budget for this deck is and some cost quite the pretty penny, with Mikokoro, Center of the Sea, Otherworld Atlas, and Walking Archive as other universal draw options. There's Heartbeat of Spring, Mana Flare, Keeper of Progenitus for more mana doublers as well as Eladamri's Vineyard, Magus of the Vineyard, Shizuko, Caller of Autumn, and to a lesser extent Blinkmoth Urn for similar mana gifts with Fertilid not being too far off from that. Finally there's Charmed Griffin and Hunted Wumpus for more free stuff options, though admittedly more restricted than what you already have.

SpookyToe on What Are You Gunna Do, Hit Me?

4 years ago

This is a very creative and cool neck. I'm probably gonna build this now :DD

Here's some ideas to toy around with: Spire Tracer, Treetop Scout, Triumph of the Hordes, Hunted Wumpus, Return of the Wildspeaker, Curse of Stalked Prey, Dragon Mage, Five-Alarm Fire, Hope of Ghirapur, Lust for War, Storm the Citadel

Oopiegu3 on Jund Goblins

4 years ago

I have nightmares about this. My suggestion would be, add Hunted Wumpus

particularrepair on Arixmethes spash sea creatures

4 years ago

Added Hunted Wumpus. Great card if you have a bounce creature that bounces everything.

Boza on Ability challenge

4 years ago

Judged in order of appearance:

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Tzefick has a very nice mechanic that seems a bit more complicated at second glance. Initially, I thought that this was basically a keyworded Blackmail or Raven's Crime , but the depth provided with the random reveal and the replacement draw make this a very interesting mechanic. The text should be reworded to make it so that the random reveal happens first and only then you choose which other cards to reveal, but that is a minor quibble. However, the cards are a bit bland - only 1 really does have any interaction with its own mechanic, but I would not think twice before putting that demon into my Nekusar, the Mindrazer EDH.

Mj3913 - it is a minor bonus, but having as an etb and attack trigger helps it a lot. There are few mechanics in the game that let you have partial hand knowledge. There is depth - the cards you reveal both players know are revealed. However, in terms of strategy, there is no reason not to choose the deck everytime you get illuminated - that way the opponent knows what they will draw in the next X turns and can plan accordingly. So, this is beneficial for the opponent as well. I assume at some point, the opponent without cards in hand will have to reveal from the library. I have to say, the cards are all over the place - Thief of Thought does not really work since you cannot mix hand cards and library cards. The mythic sorcery is really weird with cards from the library. But I really like the legendary artifact.

TheQueue841 - This is incredibly complex and flavorful - the idea to create a benefit for the opponent for your gain does not happen often (the Hunted cycle, e.g. Hunted Wumpus is what this reminds me of). The cards are the real gem in this submission oozing with flavor and nostalgia for the old days (Kamahl being an Illuminati is endlessly funny). Chromium especially is awesome. Now, while I enjoy the flavor, the complexity of the mechanic is through the roof. Because your mechanic is essentially a Conspiracy mechanic, literally, it does not impact gameplay. So, for the mechanic to do anything, you need the cards to do the heavy mechanical lifting, which is fine for one card, but not for the second. Memory issues will abound ("one of my three illuminators died, which creatures did it illuminate again?"). Perhaps, changing the mechanic a bit to have it do something more than just change types would serve to decrease complexity, but I am not sure how that could be done currently.

Top 3 Show

3. Mj3913 - good and simple, but needs more time in the proverbial oven. Can we see this in Alara 2.0? Perhaps if tweaked it could easily serve the Esper. 2. TheQueue841 - same as above, but has a much better flavor. It could be part of a new commander precon, but it needs a lot of time in the proverbial oven.
1. Tzefick - simple, clean and nice mechanic that leads to interesting gameplay. The examples were rough, but still good. The potential to be an actual Standard mechanic is very high. A keyworded Vendilion Clique is an awesome possibility!

Congratulations, Tzefick!

Kogarashi on If I play Hunted Wumpus, …

5 years ago

"Each other player" means "Each player other than the one under whose control Hunted Wumpus enters the battlefield." Since it entered under your control, you do not get to put an additional creature onto the battlefield.

If you were meant to put an additional creature onto the battlefield, it would read "each player" rather than "each other player."