Arashin War Beast
Creature — Beast
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to one or more blocking creatures, manifest the top card of your library. (Put it onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)
- CMC
- 7
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Fate Reforged
- Price
- $0.07
- EDHREC rank
- #22984
Arashin War Beast hits the table as a 6/5 trampler that makes an opponent sacrifice a blocker the moment it connects — substantial pressure for eight mana. That cost is the problem: Yarus, Roar of the Old Gods can cast it for free off a cascade trigger, which is the only context where the price tag stops being a liability.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Yarus, Roar of the Old Gods
Yarus, Roar of the Old Gods generates free casts off attacking creatures, and Arashin War Beast is exactly the kind of oversized, immediately-impactful body that justifies a top-end cascade hit — trample plus a forced sacrifice means the free cast does real work the turn it lands.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Arashin War Beast is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but competitive constructed formats have no interest in an eight-mana 6/5 when faster, cheaper threats dominate every axis. Commander is the only realistic home, and even there the card lives in a narrow lane: free-cast engines like Yarus, Roar of the Old Gods that remove the mana cost entirely. In fair green ramp shells, eight mana buys you Craterhoof Behemoth or a game-ending planeswalker, not a single creature with a conditional removal rider.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.07 bulk tier
At $0.07, Arashin War Beast is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not the card. That price won't move; demand is too narrow and supply too abundant for it to appreciate.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.