Electryte
Creature — Trilobite Beast
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to defending player, it deals damage equal to its power to each blocking creature.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Urza's Saga
- Price
- $0.41
- EDHREC rank
- #30253
Electryte hits each creature without flying for 1 damage, then deals that many damage to target player — a sweeper and a burn spell stapled together for five mana. The ceiling is high in go-wide creature metas, but five mana for a conditional payoff that does nothing against evasive boards is a real cost.
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 |
Electryte is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, and sees essentially zero competitive play in any of them. In Commander it occupies a niche role in red spell-slinger or burn-to-the-face strategies — the damage-doubling effect can close out a table if the board state cooperates, but five mana is a steep ask when opponents can just run flyers to blank it entirely. Legacy and Vintage have far more efficient options, so Electryte never surfaces there. Oathbreaker is the one format where its ceiling is closest to relevant, since life totals are lower and a single large trigger can threaten a kill, but even there it's a fringe consideration.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.41 bulk tier
At $0.41, Electryte is firmly bulk — easy to acquire, no financial friction to testing it. Don't expect the price to move; the card has a narrow use case and no competitive demand propping it up.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.