Hermes, Overseer of Elpis
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, create a 1/1 blue Bird creature token with flying and vigilance.
Whenever you attack with one or more Birds, scry 2.
Combos with Hermes, Overseer of Elpis
The lines this card is part of, what it needs alongside it, and what the cards do together. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.
- Intruder Alarm Harmonized Trio // Brainstorm Infinite
- Infinite card draw
- Infinite draw triggers
- Near-infinite creature ETB
- Near-infinite creature tokens
- Near-infinite magecraft triggers
- Near-infinite storm count
- Near-infinite untap of all creatures
- The Tenth Doctor Mana Echoes Reality Strobe Infinite
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite colorless mana
- Infinite creature tokens
- Infinite magecraft triggers
- Mass Land Denial
- Return any number of permanents to their owner's hand
- Blood Funnel Memory Crystal Searing Touch Urabrask // The Great Work Infinite
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite damage
- Infinite storm count
- Infinite magecraft triggers
Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.
Rulings
One official ruling, as Wizards published it.
- 2025-06-06
Hermes's first ability resolves before the spell that caused it to trigger. It resolves even if that spell is countered or otherwise leaves the stack.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Hermes, Overseer of Elpis, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Y'shtola, Night's Blessed | 3 | 0 | — |
| Choco, Seeker of Paradise | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Esper 3 decks
- Bant 1 deck
Every version of Hermes, Overseer of Elpis
2 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly. A printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall publishes none for some of them.
Extended Art
- Normal
- $1.74
- Foil
- $6.55
- Normal
- $0.33
- Foil
- —
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Hermes, Overseer of Elpis. It runs a name search across every version, which covers the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.
Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only. No individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.
