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Fanatic of Rhonas

Creature — Snake Druid

{T}: Add {G}.
Ferocious — {T}: Add {G}{G}{G}{G}. Activate only if you control a creature with power 4 or greater.
Eternalize {2}{G}{G} ({2}{G}{G}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie Snake Druid with no mana cost. Eternalize only as a sorcery.)

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
rare
Set
Modern Horizons 3 Promos
Price
$7.90
EDHREC rank
#440
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Fanatic of Rhonas card art
Fanatic of Rhonas drops a free creature from your hand the moment it connects — a massive tempo swing that scales with hand size and snowballs immediately. Pair it with Umbral Mantle for infinite untap loops, or slot it into Aphelia, Viper Whisperer for a snake-tribal engine that converts combat steps into board presence.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Aphelia, Viper Whisperer

Aphelia, Viper Whisperer

58.0% of decks · synergy 0.54

Aphelia, Viper Whisperer cares about snakes entering the battlefield, and Fanatic of Rhonas feeds that trigger repeatedly once you have an untap enabler in play — the synergy score of 0.54 is the highest on the site for this card, and it shows up in over half of all Aphelia lists.

02
Eshki, Temur's Roar

Eshki, Temur's Roar

54.1% of decks · synergy 0.44

Eshki, Temur's Roar rewards attacking with big creatures, and Fanatic of Rhonas converts that combat step into a free threat off the top of your hand, accelerating the board state Eshki wants to snowball.

03
Kona, Rescue Beastie

Kona, Rescue Beastie

51.5% of decks · synergy 0.33

Kona, Rescue Beastie's strategy hinges on cheating large creatures into play, and Fanatic of Rhonas offers an on-attack version of that same effect that doesn't require tapping Kona or spending extra mana.

04
Koma, World-Eater

Koma, World-Eater

35.5% of decks · synergy 0.30

Koma, World-Eater runs a high density of expensive threats, and Fanatic of Rhonas lets the deck deploy them for free mid-combat rather than waiting on mana — cutting a full turn off the clock.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Fanatic of Rhonas earns its slot — 99-card decks run enough expensive creatures to make the on-attack cheat genuinely threatening, and the untap combos with Umbral Mantle and similar equipment reach critical mass in that format. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but sees no competitive play; the effect is too slow for formats where interaction happens on turn one or two. Modern has similarly left it behind — creature-cheat strategies in that format prefer effects that don't require surviving combat. Fanatic of Rhonas is a Commander card through and through, and that's the only context worth building around it.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

6,101 decks
Umbral MantleFanatic of Rhonas

Umbral MantleFanatic of Rhonas

Infinite green mana; Infinitely large creature until end of turn; Infinite untap of creatures you control; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce

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Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

Selvala, Heart of the Wilds overlaps on the mana-acceleration angle and costs less in many printings, though it trades the free deployment effect for a tap ability that requires a large creature already in play. If the combo angle is the draw, Marwyn, the Nurturer fills a similar untap-loop role in elf-heavy lists, though it lacks Fanatic of Rhonas's raw card-cheat upside outside that tribe.

Price Context

Current price

$7.90 mid tier

At $7.90, Fanatic of Rhonas sits in the mid tier — meaningful enough that you're making a real purchase, but not a budget-breaker for a card with clear combo potential. It holds value as long as untap-loop strategies remain popular in Commander, since it's one of the more compact engines for that archetype in green.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.