Crabapple Cohort
Creature — Treefolk Warrior
This creature gets +1/+1 as long as you control another green creature.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Shadowmoor
- Price
- $0.10
- EDHREC rank
- #28462
Crabapple Cohort lands as a 4/4 or larger for five mana the moment you have another green creature in play, which is nearly always true in any green deck. It's a passable budget beater, nothing more — too vanilla to earn a slot over creatures that bring an ability.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Crabapple Cohort is a bulk common in every format where it's legal, and that's the honest ceiling. In Commander, five mana for a stats-only creature competes against green's deep bench of ramp payoffs and value engines, and Crabapple Cohort loses that contest unless the deck is explicitly tribal or stompy on the tightest budget. Pauper is the most plausible home — green aggro there can use a reliable 4/4 for five — but even there the card sees almost no play. Legacy and Vintage are non-starters.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.10 bulk tier
At $0.10, Crabapple Cohort is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard and nothing else. It won't hold or gain value, but it also costs nothing to test, so if you need a placeholder beater while building out a budget green deck, the price is right.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.