Colossal Dreadmaw
Creature — Dinosaur
Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Secret Lair Drop
- Price
- $6.88
- EDHREC rank
- #10340
Colossal Dreadmaw is a 6/6 trampler for six mana — a statline that was pedestrian when it debuted and hasn't aged upward. Every format that can run better threats does, and every format that can't still isn't excited to.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Colossal Dreadmaw is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, which is an impressive legal footprint for a card that sees near-zero competitive play in any of them. In Commander, six mana for a vanilla-adjacent body with no enters-the-battlefield effect, no synergy text, and no inevitability is a hard sell when the format rewards cards that do something beyond occupying a board slot. Pauper is the one context where Colossal Dreadmaw becomes mildly relevant — commons at common prices, and a 6/6 trampler closes games if the format's removal can't answer it cheaply. In Legacy and Vintage the card doesn't exist as a practical matter; Modern and Pioneer have enough efficient threats that a six-mana 6/6 with no text never makes the cut.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
Colossal Dreadmaw's niche — big green trampler at low monetary cost — is contested by cards that actually do more for the same or fewer mana. Territorial Allosaurus offers a comparable body at the same cost but with a relevant kicker mode, and Kalonian Tusker gives you a 6/6 for three mana in the right deck, though it requires two green pips and no trample. If raw trample and size are the requirement, those options deliver more decision-making per card.
Price Context
Current price
$6.88 mid tier
At $6.88, Colossal Dreadmaw sits in the mid tier entirely on the back of its meme notoriety and mass print runs driving collector demand rather than play demand. That price is unlikely to reflect gameplay value long-term — you're paying for the joke, not the card.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.