Fell Beast of Mordor
Creature — Drake Beast
Flying
Devour 1 (As this creature enters, you may sacrifice any number of creatures. It enters with that many +1/+1 counters on it.)
Whenever this creature enters or attacks, target opponent loses X life and you gain X life, where X is the number of +1/+1 counters on it.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Tales of Middle-earth Commander
- Price
- $0.94
- EDHREC rank
- #9809
Fell Beast of Mordor lands as a 5/4 flyer that draws a card and makes a token the moment it enters — that's immediate, tangible value before your opponents can respond. The seven mana is real, but in black token and sacrifice shells, Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder in particular, you're rarely paying that cost without a plan to recoup it.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder
Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder dumps Thrull tokens into play whenever you cast a creature, and Fell Beast of Mordor's enter-the-battlefield trigger draws a card and creates another body — so casting it off Endrek immediately floods the board and replaces itself in hand.
Ghoulcaller Gisa
Ghoulcaller Gisa sacrifices creatures to make Zombie tokens, and Fell Beast of Mordor feeds that engine twice: once as a high-power sacrifice target and once as the token it generates on entry, giving Gisa two bodies for the price of one spell.
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 where Fell Beast of Mordor actually gets played — the singleton format's slower pace gives you time to reach seven mana, and black token decks have enough redundancy to chain enter-the-battlefield value without needing this card to be efficient. Legacy and Vintage are legal, but a seven-mana creature that doesn't immediately win the game has no competitive home in either format. Oathbreaker is the same story as Commander at a smaller table: fine if you're in a midrange black shell, irrelevant in faster metas.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.94 bulk tier
At $0.94, Fell Beast of Mordor sits firmly in bulk territory — easy to acquire, easy to cut without regret. Bulk rares at this price point rarely climb unless they find a competitive application, and this one won't, so pick it up cheap and don't expect the price to move.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.