Ambush Gigapede
Creature — Insect
Flash
When this creature enters, target creature an opponent controls gets -2/-2 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Outlaws of Thunder Junction
- Price
- $0.07
- EDHREC rank
- #19410
Ambush Gigapede is a six-mana 6/3 with flash, hexproof, and haste — it hits hard the turn it enters and dodges targeted removal entirely. The cost is the stat line: a 6/3 trades down with most blockers, and six mana is a real ask for a creature that dies to a stiff breeze.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Ambush Gigapede fills a narrow niche in Sultai or mono-green graveyard and discard strategies where flash plus hexproof lets it dodge interaction on the way to the bin. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern and Legacy, six mana for a vanilla-adjacent creature with no enters-the-battlefield effect is simply not the rate those formats demand. Pauper is where Ambush Gigapede is most likely to see occasional play — flash and hexproof on a common are genuinely rare, and the format's lower power ceiling makes a 6/3 more meaningful. Pioneer and Standard share the same verdict: the body is undersized for the mana, and better threats exist at every point on the curve.
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Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.07 bulk tier
At $0.07, Ambush Gigapede sits firmly in bulk territory — you're paying for cardboard, not the card. Bulk commons rarely appreciate unless a new combo or commander pushes them into demand, and nothing about this card's text screams breakout waiting to happen.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.