Billowing Shriekmass
Creature — Spirit
Flying
When this creature enters, mill three cards. (Put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard.)
Threshold — This creature gets +2/+1 as long as there are seven or more cards in your graveyard.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Foundations
- Price
- $0.07
- EDHREC rank
- #17649
Billowing Shriekmass enters as a 4/4 with ward 2 and a enters-the-battlefield trigger that makes opponents discard a card — relevant pressure at six mana, but six mana is a lot to ask for a vanilla-sized body with a one-shot discard stapled on. It's a role-player in dedicated discard shells, not a generalist include.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Billowing Shriekmass slots into discard-matters decks — Tinybones, Trinket Thief or Nekusar, the Mindrazer builds that want every opponent hellbent as fast as possible — where the three-player discard trigger at ETB starts to look like real value. Outside that niche, six mana competes with game-ending threats and loses. In 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer, discard is cheap and proactive; a six-mana creature that forces one card from each opponent on entry can't compete with Thoughtseize and Grief operating at one mana. Standard is the only 60-card format where Billowing Shriekmass might find a brief window if aggressive discard payoffs are legal simultaneously, but the ceiling is still a fringe-synergy card.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.07 bulk tier
At $0.07, Billowing Shriekmass is deep bulk — the price of a card the market considers interchangeable filler. That price is stable in the sense that it can't fall much further, but there's no meaningful catalyst to push it upward unless a discard-themed Commander precon puts it on the map.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.