Belligerent Brontodon
Creature — Dinosaur
Each creature you control assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power.
- CMC
- 7
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GW
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Ixalan
- Price
- $0.22
- EDHREC rank
- #19242
Belligerent Brontodon flips your entire creature base to use toughness as power on a 4/7 body for seven mana — every high-toughness creature you control becomes a threat without any further investment. The cost is real: seven mana is a significant ask, and the effect does nothing until you have creatures in play. In Tadeas, Juniper Ascendant decks built around big, beefy defenders, that cost pays off immediately.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Tadeas, Juniper Ascendant
Tadeas, Juniper Ascendant rewards high-toughness creatures that can attack, and Belligerent Brontodon converts every wall and defender in the 99 into a legitimate combat threat — the two cards are doing exactly the same job from different angles, and stacking them means your 0/6 mana dork is suddenly a 6/6 attacker that draws Tadeas's ability.
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 |
Belligerent Brontodon is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but in practice it lives almost exclusively in Commander. Competitive Constructed formats move too fast to untap on seven mana for a static ability that requires a board state to matter. In Commander, the card finds its home in high-toughness tribal and defender-matters shells, where a single resolved Brontodon can represent a lethal swing the turn it lands. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander 60-card-adjacent format where it could theoretically see play, but the same speed problem applies.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.22 bulk tier
At $0.22, Belligerent Brontodon sits firmly in bulk territory — easy to pick up as a four-of or grab as a casual Commander inclusion without a second thought. Bulk rares with narrow, build-around applications rarely climb on their own, so treat this as a cheap piece for the specific deck that wants it rather than a spec target.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.