Dire Wolves
Creature — Wolf
This creature has banding as long as you control a Plains. (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding you control are blocking or being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Ice Age
- Price
- $0.13
- EDHREC rank
- #26542
Dire Wolves is a 3/2 for three mana with no evasion, no enters-the-battlefield effect, and no relevant creature type — it trades with a 3/3 and leaves nothing behind. There is no competitive format where this slot can't be filled by something that does more.
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 |
Dire Wolves is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legality and playability are different things. In Commander, a vanilla 3/2 for three is unplayable — the format's scale demands every card pull weight, and Dire Wolves does nothing beyond occupying a body. Pauper is the only format where commons matter most, but even there the bar for three-mana creatures is far higher than a 3/2 with no text. Legacy and Vintage have access to every tool ever printed, which makes running Dire Wolves in either format a choice that requires a very good explanation.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.13 bulk tier
At $0.13, Dire Wolves sits firmly in bulk — the price of a card that sees no competitive demand and never will. It holds that floor indefinitely; there is no trajectory that changes the calculus here.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.