Crater Hellion
Creature — Hellion Beast
Echo 
(At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.)
When this creature enters, it deals 4 damage to each other creature.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Eternal Masters
- Price
- $0.16
- EDHREC rank
- #18257
Crater Hellion enters and deals 4 damage to everything — creatures, players, the whole board — then swings as a 6/4 echo threat that demands an answer the following turn. Six mana for a sweeper stapled to a body is a real rate, but the echo cost means you're paying twelve total if you want to keep it, which most pilots won't.
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 |
Commander is where Crater Hellion earns its keep — it's a one-sided board wipe in token and go-wide decks that can build above the 4-toughness threshold, and the echo drawback is easy to dodge via flicker, sac outlets, or simply letting it die. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but irrelevant; six mana at sorcery speed with an echo tax gets nowhere near a competitive spell slot when Pyroclasm and Fury exist. Oathbreaker follows the Commander logic closely: if your commander survives 4 damage or benefits from the clear, Crater Hellion is a reasonable include at the top of the curve.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.16 bulk tier
At $0.16, Crater Hellion is deep bulk — there's no financial friction to picking it up. Bulk rares with narrow Commander niches tend to stay right here, so don't expect movement.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.