Dreamstalker Manticore
Enchantment Creature — Manticore
Whenever you cast your first spell during each opponent's turn, this creature deals 1 damage to any target.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Theros Beyond Death
- Price
- $0.09
- EDHREC rank
- #25363
Dreamstalker Manticore turns every spell you cast into a free attack trigger, stacking damage across a turn without needing combat tricks or extra-combat spells. The catch is a five-mana body that does nothing on an empty stack — it rewards spell-dense decks and punishes passive ones.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Dreamstalker Manticore lives. Spellslinger and prowess-style decks that cast six or more spells a turn can convert it into a repeatable, wide damage source that bypasses blockers entirely. Outside Commander, the five-mana cost prices it out of competitive Legacy and Modern, where the effect arrives too slowly and without enough redundancy to matter. Pioneer and Vintage are both legal but hold no realistic home — the effect is too slow for the former and too low-impact for the latter. Oathbreaker could theoretically house it in a high-instant-and-sorcery shell, but the format's lower life totals make faster threats more attractive.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.09 bulk tier
At $0.09, Dreamstalker Manticore is deep bulk — the kind of card you pick up as a throw-in and never think about price again. It's unlikely to spike given its narrow application, but at this price the question of value is moot: if the deck wants it, the cost is negligible.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.