Eel-Hounds
Creature — Fish Dog
Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player it's attacking.)
Whenever this creature attacks, another target creature you control gets +2/+2 and gains trample until end of turn.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Avatar: The Last Airbender Eternal
- Price
- $0.14
- EDHREC rank
- #21683
Eel-Hounds is a bulk creature that trades a modest power-and-toughness body for a conditional ability that rarely produces meaningful upside at Commander tables. The cost in card equity is too high for what it delivers.
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 |
Eel-Hounds is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but sees essentially no competitive play in any of them. In Commander, the power bar is high enough that a vanilla-adjacent creature without immediate impact gets outclassed before it matters. Legacy and Vintage ignore it entirely — those formats have no interest in this stat line. Oathbreaker mirrors Commander's dynamics closely enough that the verdict is the same.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.14 bulk tier
At $0.14, Eel-Hounds sits firmly in bulk territory, and that price reflects its play rate accurately. Don't expect movement — bulk creatures without a combo application or format breakout moment stay bulk.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.