Is Colossal Badger // Dig Deep good in Commander?

Colossal Badger // Dig Deep in Commander

Colossal Badger // Dig Deep is a 5/4 trample beater that doubles as a three-mana instant mill-and-ramp spell — two genuinely useful halves for the price of one card slot. The back face, Dig Deep, is the real reason to run it: hitting a land into play at instant speed justifies inclusion in any green deck that wants to hit land drops.

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	legal
oathbreaker	legal

In Commander, Colossal Badger // Dig Deep earns its slot in green creature strategies and self-mill builds alike — the front face closes games with trample, and Dig Deep patches missed land drops at instant speed, which is a meaningful edge in a 40-life format where long games are common. Pauper is where the back face gets serious consideration; three-mana instant-speed ramp that also mills is real card advantage at common, and green ramp shells there are always hunting for redundancy. Legacy and Vintage are legal but irrelevant — neither format has room for a seven-mana 5/4, and Dig Deep's effect is too slow to matter competitively. Oathbreaker functions similarly to Commander for this card's purposes: green value shells can use both halves, though the 60-card singleton constraint makes the modal flexibility matter a bit more.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.14 bulk tier

At $0.14, Colossal Badger // Dig Deep is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not scarcity. There's no meaningful price floor to worry about holding; pick up copies freely and don't expect movement in either direction.