Atreus, Impulsive Son
Legendary Creature — God Archer
Reach
, 
: Draw a card for each experience counter you have, then discard a card. Atreus deals 2 damage to each opponent.
Partner—Father & son (You can have two commanders if both have this ability.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- RU
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Secret Lair Drop
- Price
- $3.46
- EDHREC rank
- #9098
Atreus, Impulsive Son turns every untap effect into a free card — the payoff is immediate and repeatable the moment he hits the board. The cost is running him in a deck that can actually exploit the untap angle, with Mind Over Matter being the clearest ceiling of what that looks like at its best.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Atreus, Impulsive Son belongs — the untap-draw engine he enables rewards the kind of dedicated synergy-building that 99-card singleton encourages, and the 40-life clock gives you time to assemble it. Legacy and Vintage are technically legal homes, but neither format has interest in a five-mana creature that demands infrastructure to pay off when faster engines exist. Oathbreaker shares Commander's singleton architecture and could support him, but the 20-life format moves too fast for a slow value engine to matter.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Atreus, Impulsive SonMind Over Matter
Infinite self-discard triggers; Infinite draw triggers; Infinite looting; Near-infinite card draw; Near-infinite untap of permanents you control; Near-infinite mana permanents you control can produce
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Current price
$3.46 cheap tier
At $3.46, Atreus, Impulsive Son sits at the low end of mythic pricing — cheap enough that the barrier to picking him up is nil. Whether that holds depends entirely on whether the untap archetype develops a critical mass of support cards; for now it's a low-risk buy.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.