Bestial Menace
Sorcery
Create a 1/1 green Snake creature token, a 2/2 green Wolf creature token, and a 3/3 green Elephant creature token.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Jumpstart: Historic Horizons
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #17961
Bestial Menace puts three bodies — a 3/3, a 2/2, and a 1/1 — onto the battlefield for five mana, making it one of the most token-dense single spells in green. The rate is real: five power and toughness spread across three creatures is exactly what token-doubler and sacrifice engines want.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Bestial Menace earns its keep — three distinct creature types across three bodies means it dodges wraths cleanly, feeds sacrifice loops, and scales with any token-doubling effect on the table. In Legacy and Vintage it's firmly unplayable; five mana for three tokens doesn't come close to the efficiency those formats demand. Modern has too many cheaper token generators and too little patience for a five-mana sorcery that doesn't immediately win the game. Oathbreaker follows the same logic as Commander but on a compressed scale, where five mana is a steeper ask — run it in a token-doubling shell or leave it out.
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Price Context
Current price
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Pricing data for Bestial Menace isn't currently available, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the latest. As a bulk green sorcery with a narrow token-deck home, it typically shows up in the sub-$1 range and is worth grabbing cheaply for any dedicated token build.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.