Beasts of Bogardan
Creature — Beast
Protection from red
This creature gets +1/+1 as long as an opponent controls a nontoken white permanent.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Chronicles
- Price
- $0.16
- EDHREC rank
- #30076
Beasts of Bogardan is a five-mana 2/4 that gains +1/+0 for each Mountain opponents control — a stat line that sounds conditional but almost never scales past a small bonus even in dedicated red metas. Skip it; five mana deserves a card that wins games on its own, not one that asks your opponents to cooperate.
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 |
Beasts of Bogardan is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but legal doesn't mean playable. In Commander, the effect is symmetry-dependent on opponents' basic land choices, which means it's a 2/4 for five in most games — a rate that doesn't threaten any table. Legacy and Vintage have no interest in a vanilla-adjacent creature at this cost. Oathbreaker shares Commander's problem: the boost is too unreliable to build around, and five mana is too expensive to shrug off.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.16 bulk tier
At $0.16, Beasts of Bogardan is deep bulk — the kind of card that fills a commons box, not a deck slot. The price reflects the demand accurately and isn't going anywhere.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.