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Ancient Adamantoise

Creature — Turtle

Vigilance, ward {3}
Damage isn't removed from this creature during cleanup steps.
All damage that would be dealt to you and other permanents you control is dealt to this creature instead.
When this creature dies, exile it and create ten tapped Treasure tokens.

CMC
8
Mana cost
{5}{G}{G}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
mythic
Set
Final Fantasy
Price
$2.95
EDHREC rank
#5426
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Ancient Adamantoise card art
Ancient Adamantoise lands as a 60/60 with hexproof for eight mana — an immediate, near-unkillable threat that demands an answer the turn it enters. The cost is real: no trample, no haste, and eight generic mana means it's dead weight in fast games, but Derevi, Empyrial Tactician and Venom, Deadly Devourer both have ways to make that irrelevant.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Venom, Deadly Devourer

Venom, Deadly Devourer

57.2% of decks · synergy 0.56

Venom, Deadly Devourer is the natural home — feeding Ancient Adamantoise to the sacrifice engine generates massive poison counters off that 60-power body, turning one creature into a lethal clock.

02
The Pride of Hull Clade

The Pride of Hull Clade

31.7% of decks · synergy 0.30

The Pride of Hull Clade cares about creatures with high power, and Ancient Adamantoise is the ceiling — it becomes the biggest target for any 'when a creature with power N enters' trigger the commander generates.

03
Doran, Besieged by Time

Doran, Besieged by Time

30.3% of decks · synergy 0.25

Doran, Besieged by Time makes creatures attack with toughness, and Ancient Adamantoise's toughness matches its power at 60 — it swings as a 60-power attacker the moment Doran is on board.

04
Betor, Kin to All

Betor, Kin to All

29.5% of decks · synergy 0.24

Betor, Kin to All rewards running the biggest creatures in your colors, and Ancient Adamantoise's raw size makes it the premier target for Betor's copy and buff effects.

05
Archelos, Lagoon Mystic

Archelos, Lagoon Mystic

22.9% of decks · synergy 0.22

Archelos, Lagoon Mystic slows permanents entering tapped, which means Ancient Adamantoise's eight-mana cost gets recouped in tempo — and the hexproof body survives everything opponents tap down to answer it.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Ancient Adamantoise is a Commander card, full stop. In 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer it's legal but entirely unplayable — eight mana for a vanilla hexproof creature doesn't compete in any serious context. Legacy and Vintage have faster, more broken things happening on turns one through three, so Ancient Adamantoise never sees a meaningful battlefield there either. Commander is where the math changes: 40 life, slower games, and commanders like Venom, Deadly Devourer or Doran, Besieged by Time that turn a 60/60 hexproof body into an engine piece rather than just a finisher.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$2.95 cheap tier

At $2.95, Ancient Adamantoise sits in the cheap tier — accessible enough that there's no real barrier to testing it in any deck that wants it. Given the narrow synergy profile and the fact that it only moves in dedicated Commander builds, don't expect significant price movement in either direction.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.