Broodmate Tyrant
Creature — Dragon
Flying
When this creature enters, create a 5/5 red Dragon creature token with flying.
Encore 
- CMC
- 7
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BGR
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Modern Horizons 3 Commander
- Price
- $0.18
- EDHREC rank
- #12682
Broodmate Tyrant hits the board and immediately floods it — you get a Dragon plus a matching token for each Dragon you already control, turning a single spell into a board state most decks need three turns to answer. Seven mana is the honest cost, and the card earns it; under Disa the Restless, where Dragon tokens are already the standing army, this card is routinely a five-for-one.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Disa the Restless
Disa the Restless builds a Dragon token engine naturally, so Broodmate Tyrant entering with a full retinue of copies is the norm rather than the ceiling — one cast can double or triple your board width in a single trigger.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Broodmate Tyrant is a Commander card through and through — the payoff scales with a board presence you've had multiple turns to develop, which is exactly the game Commander creates. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but competes with formats that end before a seven-mana sorcery is ever castable, so it won't see serious play there. Commander is where the math works: more Dragons in play means more tokens on resolution, and token-wide strategies punish slower decks that can't answer the entire swarm at once. Oathbreaker offers a compressed version of the same dynamic if your planeswalker is generating Dragon tokens, though the smaller format means the board state rarely gets deep enough to make it spectacular.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.18 bulk tier
At $0.18, Broodmate Tyrant sits firmly in bulk territory despite being a legitimate bomb in the right shell. Bulk rares with clear Commander homes tend to creep up when a popular commander pushes demand, so picking up copies now costs essentially nothing while the floor is already the floor.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.