Lunar Hatchling card art

Lunar Hatchling

Creature — Alien Beast MV 6

Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.

What it does

Flying, trample

Basic landcycling 2 ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Escape—4, Exile a land you control, Exile five other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.)

Rulings

8 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2023-10-13

    Escape's permission doesn't change when you may cast the spell from your graveyard.

  • 2023-10-13

    If a card has multiple abilities giving you permission to cast it, such as two escape abilities or an escape ability and a flashback ability, you choose which one to apply. The others have no effect.

  • 2023-10-13

    Once you begin casting a spell with escape, it immediately moves to the stack. Players can't take any other actions until you're done casting the spell.

  • 2023-10-13

    After an escaped permanent spell resolves, it enters the battlefield and will return to its owner's graveyard if it dies later.

  • 2023-10-13

    Unlike the normal cycling ability, basic landcycling doesn't allow you to draw a card. Instead, it lets you search your library for a basic land card. You don't choose the type of basic land card you'll find until you're performing the search. After you choose a basic land card in your library, you reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library.

  • 2023-10-13

    Basic landcycling is a form of cycling. Any ability that triggers on a card being cycled also triggers on a card being basic landcycled. Any ability that stops a cycling ability from being activated also stops a basic landcycling ability from being activated.

  • 2023-10-13

    To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost you're paying (such as an escape cost), add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. The mana value of the spell remains unchanged, no matter what the total cost to cast it was and no matter whether an alternative cost was paid.

  • 2023-10-13

    If you cast a spell with its escape permission, you can't choose to apply any other alternative costs or to cast it without paying its mana cost. If it has any additional costs, you must pay those.

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Lunar Hatchling, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 1
Games played 0
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games — not enough to publish a rate yet.
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
The Thirteenth Doctor 1 0 —
Yasmin Khan 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Temur 1 deck

Every version of Lunar Hatchling

4 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 genuinely publishes none for some of them.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Lunar Hatchling — a name search across every version, for 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.