Felix Five-Boots
Legendary Creature — Ooze Rogue
Menace, ward 
If a creature you control dealing combat damage to a player causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BGU
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander
- Price
- $5.01
- EDHREC rank
- #4666
Felix Five-Boots turns a single combat trigger into an avalanche — anything with a "whenever this deals combat damage" ability fires twice, and the ward 5 means opponents are paying a real tax to answer it. At five mana in Sultai colors, it slots cleanly into any deck running Gonti, Canny Acquisitor, where doubling opponent-library triggers means you're stealing two cards for every one swing.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Gonti, Canny Acquisitor
Gonti, Canny Acquisitor's whole game plan is stealing cards off combat damage triggers, and Felix Five-Boots doubles every one of them — each attack that connects now exiles two cards from opponents' libraries and lets you cast both.
Kotis, the Fangkeeper
Kotis, the Fangkeeper cares about creatures entering and dying, generating treasures and value off each trigger, so Felix Five-Boots doubling Kotis's own combat damage triggers accelerates that engine faster than almost any other single card.
Cazur, Ruthless Stalker // Ukkima, Stalking Shadow
Cazur, Ruthless Stalker // Ukkima, Stalking Shadow already wants to connect with unblocked creatures to stack +1/+1 counters, and Felix Five-Boots turning each of those connections into a double trigger means the board snowballs out of control in two or three swings.
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 |
Commander is the obvious home for Felix Five-Boots — the card was designed around the multiplayer dynamic where one creature swinging at three different opponents generates three separate triggers, all of which get doubled. In Legacy and Vintage, it's technically legal but has no competitive footprint; five mana for a trigger-doubler is far too slow against those format's threat density and interaction speed. Oathbreaker could be a niche fit if your signature spell generates combat damage triggers, but the 60-card formats where Felix Five-Boots is legal simply don't have the right density of "whenever this deals combat damage" payoffs to justify the slot.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
Strionic Resonator at under $1 copies any triggered ability, including combat damage triggers, and is the closest functional substitute — the ceiling is lower since it requires two mana and a tap each time, but it gets the job done in a budget shell. If the real draw is the ward protection keeping Felix Five-Boots alive, Swiftfoot Boots or Lightning Greaves fill that role for under $2, though they don't replicate the doubling effect at all.
Price Context
Current price
$5.01 mid tier
At $5.01, Felix Five-Boots sits in the mid tier — affordable enough that it's not a budget obstacle, but not a throw-in bulk rare either. Demand is concentrated in Gonti, Canny Acquisitor builds, which make up a large share of the card's market; as long as that commander stays popular, the price is unlikely to crater.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Gonti, Canny Acquisitor
- Kotis, the Fangkeeper
- Cazur, Ruthless Stalker // Ukkima, Stalking Shadow
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.