Bellowing Crier
Creature — Frog Advisor
When this creature enters, draw a card, then discard a card.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Bloomburrow
- Price
- $0.19
- EDHREC rank
- #8528
Bellowing Crier gives every creature you cast a built-in evasion threat — opponents either chump-block the pumped attacker or eat the damage. The cost is a three-mana 2/3 body that does nothing without creatures flowing, making it dead weight in grindy or stax metas; in Clement, the Worrywort lists that are already casting multiple creatures per turn, it pulls its weight immediately.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Clement, the Worrywort
Clement, the Worrywort triggers on casting creatures and wants the board to keep moving forward, so Bellowing Crier turns every one of those triggers into a potential unblockable swing that converts Clement's card-draw engine into lethal pressure.
Grolnok, the Omnivore
Grolnok, the Omnivore mills frogs into exile and casts them for free, generating the kind of repeated creature-casting volume where Bellowing Crier's pump-per-cast stacks fast enough to close games through blockers.
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 |
Bellowing Crier is a Commander card almost exclusively — the effect is incremental enough that 60-card formats want nothing to do with it, and even in Pauper the common slot is too contested for a three-mana creature that requires a creature-heavy gameplan to function. In Commander it earns its place in high-velocity creature decks where casting four or five creatures in a turn turns the Crier's trigger into a one-shot alpha strike. Outside of those shells — token doublers, frog tribal, Boros go-wide — it's a bench card that never makes the cut.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.19 bulk tier
At $0.19, Bellowing Crier is pure bulk and safe to pick up without a second thought on price. Bulk commons with niche Commander applications rarely spike unless a new pushed commander puts them on the radar, so grab it when you need it and don't stockpile.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Clement, the Worrywort
- Grolnok, the Omnivore
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.