Hofri Ghostforge
Legendary Creature — Dwarf Cleric
Spirits you control get +1/+1 and have trample and haste.
Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, exile it. If you do, create a token that's a copy of that creature, except it's a Spirit in addition to its other types and it has "When this token leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to its owner's graveyard."
4 / 5
- Set
- Strixhaven: School of Mages (STX #192)
- Rarity
- Mythic
- Mana value
- 5
- Released
- 2021-04-23
- Artist
- Daarken
- EDHREC rank
- #6,791
- Colour identity
- Finishes
- Nonfoil, Foil
- Served from
- Local database
Commander bracket
Derived from card traits, not a ruling — bracket rules turn on how a deck intends to use a card. Bracket rules
EDHREC
Combos 15
All 15 combos.
Commander recommendations
Top synergy 50
Played far more in this commander's decks than elsewhere.
- Goblin Bombardment
- Karmic Guide
- Ashnod's Altar
- High Market
- Selfless Spirit
- Solemn Simulacrum
- Fanatical Devotion
- Martyr's Cause
- Sun Titan
- Atsushi, the Blazing Sky
- Ao, the Dawn Sky
- Spirited Companion
- Molten Primordial
- Knight of the White Orchid
- Reveillark
- Quintorius, Field Historian
- Cathar Commando
- Luminous Broodmoth
- Skyclave Apparition
- Zealous Conscripts
- Venerable Warsinger
- Altar of Dementia
- Phyrexian Altar
- Coercive Recruiter
- Storm of Souls
- Sneak Attack
- Mob Rule
- Duergar Hedge-Mage
- Burnished Hart
- Muster the Departed
- Rootborn Defenses
- Skullclamp
- Kami of False Hope
- Mass Mutiny
- Magus of the Wheel
- Wall of Omens
- Mondrak, Glory Dominus
- Captivating Crew
- Seize the Spotlight
- Anointed Procession
- Culling Dais
- Remorseful Cleric
- Terror of the Peaks
- Dark-Dweller Oracle
- Neyali, Suns' Vanguard
- Kari Zev's Expertise
- Loran of the Third Path
- Combustible Gearhulk
- Quintorius, History Chaser
- Nesting Dovehawk
Most included 50
Highest share of decks running them, distinctive or not.
- Plains
- Mountain
- Command Tower
- Sol Ring
- Arcane Signet
- Goblin Bombardment
- Solemn Simulacrum
- Karmic Guide
- Selfless Spirit
- Clifftop Retreat
- Sun Titan
- Ashnod's Altar
- Battlefield Forge
- High Market
- Boros Signet
- Swords to Plowshares
- Sacred Foundry
- Talisman of Conviction
- Fanatical Devotion
- Atsushi, the Blazing Sky
- Martyr's Cause
- Knight of the White Orchid
- Path to Exile
- Spirited Companion
- Ao, the Dawn Sky
- Boros Garrison
- Furycalm Snarl
- Rugged Prairie
- Spectator Seating
- Skullclamp
- Skyclave Apparition
- Sundown Pass
- Molten Primordial
- Cathar Commando
- Quintorius, Field Historian
- Temple of Triumph
- Zealous Conscripts
- Luminous Broodmoth
- Reveillark
- Venerable Warsinger
- Blasphemous Act
- Boros Charm
- Phyrexian Altar
- Loran of the Third Path
- Altar of Dementia
- Mondrak, Glory Dominus
- Generous Gift
- Arid Mesa
- Coercive Recruiter
- Storm of Souls
Format legality
Rulings
- 2021-04-16
Any enters-the-battlefield abilities of the copied creature will trigger when the token enters the battlefield. Any "As [this creature] enters the battlefield" or "[This creature] enters the battlefield with" abilities of the creature will also work.
- 2021-04-16
Each Spirit token you create refers only to the card you exile during the resolution of the ability that created that token. When it leaves the battlefield, you return only that card to your graveyard, not any other card exiled by Hofri.
- 2021-04-16
Hofri Ghostforge's last ability is linked to the ability it grants the Spirit token. If a replacement effect causes you to create more than one Spirit token with this effect, they will all have that ability, and the exiled card will be returned to the graveyard if any of them leaves the battlefield.
- 2021-04-16
If another creature enters the battlefield as a copy of the Spirit token or another effect creates a copy of the Spirit token, it will have the triggered ability granted by Hofri, but will not be linked to Hofri's ability and will not return the card to the graveyard when it leaves the battlefield.
- 2021-04-16
If the copied creature was copying something else, then the token enters the battlefield as whatever that creature copied.
- 2021-04-16
If you can't exile the card, perhaps because another effect moved the card before the triggered ability started resolving, you won't create a token.
- 2021-04-16
The copy uses the copiable values of the creature as it last existed on the battlefield before it died, not as it existed in the graveyard before it was exiled.
- 2021-04-16
The token copies exactly what was printed on the original creature and nothing else (unless the creature was copying something else; see below). It doesn't copy whether that creature was tapped or untapped, whether it had any counters on it or Auras or Equipment attached to it, or any non-copy effects that changed its power, toughness, types, color, or so on.