Bull Hippo
Creature — Hippo
Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Seventh Edition
- Price
- $0.17
- EDHREC rank
- #27410
Bull Hippo gives you a 3/3 with islandwalk for four mana — fine stats, conditional unblockability, and nothing else. In a format full of cheaper, more versatile creatures, it's a bulk rare that earns a slot only in the narrowest blue-heavy metas.
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 |
Bull Hippo is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but competitive play in any of those formats isn't where it ends up. In Commander, islandwalk matters only against blue decks, and even then a 3/3 for four isn't pulling weight in a 100-card singleton environment. Legacy and Vintage have no interest in a vanilla-adjacent four-drop. Bull Hippo is a casual Commander card at best, and even there it's a tough sell outside a dedicated Merfolk or blue-tribal build where opponents reliably control Islands.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.17 bulk tier
At $0.17, Bull Hippo is deep bulk — you're not buying it for any reason other than completing a collection or slotting it into the most casual of builds. There's no financial upside here; it won't spike, and copies are abundant.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.