MTG Foundations has a lot of exciting cards for a variety of typal archetypes. Between the main set and Foundations Jumpstart oodles of beloved and underserved types are getting new support. Between Beasts, Cats, Elves, Goblins, and even Horses, there’s a lot for everyone to enjoy.
Despite only getting two new cards in MTG Foundations, Rabbits are getting some of the most exciting support. This is all thanks to Hare Apparent, in particular, who has a great deal of MTG players seriously excited. Beyond being an incredibly interesting card on its own, this new Rabbit has also caused a typal-themed price spike.
Hare Apparent
- Mana Value: 1W
- Rarity: Common
- Card Type: Creature — Rabbit Noble
- Stats: 2/2
- Card Text: When this creature enters, create a number of 1/1 white Rabbit creature tokens equal to the number of other creatures you control named Hare Apparent.
A deck can have any number of cards named Hare Apparent.
To highlight the rabbit of the hour first, Hare Apparent is the latest in a long line of uniquely beloved MTG cards. Featuring the text “A deck can have any number of cards named,” this card allows for some serious shenanigans. Like Relentless Rats and Persistent Petitioners, these one-card decks are often wonderfully weird and strangely strong.
In the case of Hare Apparent, this card is able to generate an obscene number of tokens in the right situation. This right situation is mercifully incredibly easy to manifest since you just have to keep playing one card. Doing this will net you an ever-increasing tide of tokens, until you’re met with a day-ruining board wipe, at least.
On its own, Hare Apparent would make for a very fun, unique, and surprisingly expensive deck. Even with the print run of MTG Foundations, needing so many copies for a single deck causes a great deal of demand. As if this expected demand wasn’t already high enough, Rabbits have been in vogue recently following Bloomburrow.
Between Baylen, the Haymaker and Finneas, Ace Archer there are some fantastic Commanders for Rabbit Typal right now. Alongside these cards, Valley Questcaller, Burrowguard Mentor, and Pollen-Shield Hare make the archetype surprisingly robust. Should you add in a late-game Banner of Kinship from MTG Foundations then you could have an obscenely strong board incredibly quickly.
Already, Rabbit Typal decks want to go wide and create as many tokens as possible to overwhelm opponents. This makes Hare Apparent the perfect addition to this strategy since they’re obviously a capable token generator. All you need is card draw to keep your hand stocked up, and this one card can do the rest.
Tempt with Bunnies
- Mana Value: 2W
- Rarity: Rare
- Card Type: Sorcery
- Card Text: Tempting Offer — Draw a card and create a 1/1 white Rabbit creature token. Then each opponent may draw a card and create a 1/1 white Rabbit creature token. For each opponent who does, you draw a card and you create a 1/1 white Rabbit creature token.
Unfortunately, card draw can often be rather hard to come by in white. Even in Selesnya-flavored decks, it’s hard to find a consistent engine to keep giving you cards turn after turn. Cards like Thickest in the Thicket might be able to help for decks that go tall, but go-wide decks face a different challenge altogether.
If you’re building a token deck, cards like Tocasia’s Welcome and Bennie Bracks, Zoologist are practically mandatory auto-includes. As useful as these cards are, however, they’re limited by once-per-turn clauses to keep them contained. Rite of Harmony and Camaraderie can offer a lot more explosive potential, but these cards are mostly one-and-done.
While these cards are restricted by limited useability, getting multiple cards in a single turn is always an incredible boon. With this in mind, players are always hungry for new cards that can do exactly that, just like Tempt with Bunnies. While this Bloomburrow Commander card does come with a serious catch, it also comes with Rabbits!
Depending on what your opponents want, Tempt with Bunnies can net you four cards and four 1/1 Rabbit tokens. The catch in this situation is that your opponents each get a card and a Rabbit too, which is hardly ideal. You might come out on top from the overall value proposition, but you’re nonetheless giving your opponents resources.
Thankfully, since a Rabbit-Typal deck obviously wants more Rabbits, Tempt with Bunnies can still be a fantastic card. Not only does it give you more tokens, but drawing into additional Hare Apparent copies lets you grow your board even more. Even with the card’s problematic downside, it’s nonetheless a shoo-in for any Rabbit Typal deck.
The Spike
Given that Rabbits are, once again, all the rage thanks to MTG Foundations, the price of Tempt with Bunnies has shot up. At the start of October, this card was worth just $1.51 but it’s now shot up to a market price of $4.76. New listings for Tempt with Bunnies begin even higher, with the cheapest near-mint copy currently being listed for $5.25.
As usual, several recent sales have pushed even higher thanks to limited supply and players racing to purchase copies. At their peak, players have paid $9.98, although these sales appear to be outliers, for now. Thankfully, there is a cheaper variant of Tempt with Bunnies running around, if you want to save some money.
Much like Thickest in the Thicket, the extended art variant of Tempt with Bunnies is cheaper than the regular printing. While this may seem like a mistake, there may be more supply for extended art variants since it appears in Collector Boosters. This helps to keep the price down somewhat, even when there’s a lot of interest in the card.
Ultimately, the current spike to Tempt with Bunnies will probably settle soon. Rabbits might be a popular Commander deck right now, but they’re not the most consistently supported by any means. Once the hype for Foundations dies down, many of the spikes we’ve seen recently will likely return to normal.
This is especially true for Tempt with Bunnies, which won’t see much play anywhere else. For better or worse, Tempt with Bunnies is almost exclusively for Rabbit-Typal and Token-themed decks. While the latter is a popular archetype, Rabbits are niche at best and are unlikely to drive consistent demand.
