Bashful Beastie
Creature — Beast
When this creature dies, manifest dread. (Look at the top two cards of your library. Put one onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature and the other into your graveyard. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Duskmourn: House of Horror
- Price
- $0.08
- EDHREC rank
- #21273
Bashful Beastie is a scaling green threat that grows as your hand shrinks — run it in decks that empty their hand fast and want a payoff creature for doing so. The cost is real: it enters as a 0/0 if you're not already hellbent-adjacent, which means it's dead weight in slower, card-advantage-heavy shells.
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, Bashful Beastie earns a slot in hellbent or hand-dumping strategies — think Zurzoth, Chaos Rider wheel builds or Hazoret the Fervent decks that actively want an empty hand. Outside of those niches, a vanilla beater with a conditional size isn't pulling weight in a 99-card format where board wipes and card advantage are everywhere. In pauper, the common designation makes it accessible, but aggressive green decks at that level have more reliable threats that don't depend on hand state. Across other 60-card formats, Bashful Beastie competes against too many unconditional threats at the same mana cost to justify the slot.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.08 bulk tier
At $0.08, Bashful Beastie sits firmly in bulk territory — pick it up for pennies if the synergy is there, but don't expect the price to move. It's the kind of card you grab out of a bulk bin rather than order specifically.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.