Bellowing Saddlebrute
Creature — Orc Warrior
Raid — When this creature enters, you lose 4 life unless you attacked this turn.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Khans of Tarkir
- Price
- $0.06
- EDHREC rank
- #28434
Bellowing Saddlebrute is a 4/5 trampler for four mana — a genuinely above-rate body — but it punishes you with a lost combat phase if you control no Orc as it enters. Outside dedicated Orc tribal, that drawback is too unreliable to ignore.
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 |
Bellowing Saddlebrute sees essentially no competitive play in Legacy, Modern, or Pioneer, where four-mana creatures need to do far more than threaten combat damage. In Commander, it belongs exclusively in Orc tribal builds where the drawback is trivially blanked — run it in something like Auntie Blyte, Bad Influence or another Orc-dense shell and it's a clean, efficient attacker; slot it anywhere else and you're handing opponents a free combat step the turn it lands. Oathbreaker has the same tribal dependency and the same verdict.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.06 bulk tier
At $0.06, Bellowing Saddlebrute is deep bulk — you're not buying this for value, you're buying it because your Orc tribal deck needs a cheap body. That price is stable because demand is narrow and supply is plentiful; don't expect movement in either direction.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.