Akroan Mastiff
Creature — Dog
, 
: Tap target creature.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Journey into Nyx
- Price
- $0.08
- EDHREC rank
- #21470
Akroan Mastiff taps a creature at the cost of tapping itself — two mana and your combat step to neutralize one attacker or blocker for a turn. It's a fair-at-best effect on a fragile body, and in Commander especially, one-for-one tap abilities without untap synergy don't clear the bar.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Akroan Mastiff is legal across Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Pauper, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but sees essentially no competitive play in any of them. In Pauper, where commons compete on raw efficiency, a 2/2 vigilance creature that taps to tap one target is too slow and too fragile to matter. In Commander, where the card pool is deepest and redundancy is expected, tap-down effects need to either be free, repeatable without investment, or attached to a relevant body — Akroan Mastiff offers none of those. The formats where it's legal simply have better options at every angle this card tries to cover.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.08 bulk tier
At $0.08, Akroan Mastiff is deep bulk — the kind of card that fills a draft chaff box rather than a trade binder. Don't expect that floor to move; cards at this price point without a competitive application stay there.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.