Feral Animist
Creature — Goblin Shaman
: This creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is its power.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GR
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Dragon's Maze
- Price
- $0.13
- EDHREC rank
- #25516
Feral Animist turns any mana surplus into a one-shot lethal threat — tap it with enough mana floating and it can attack for 10+ out of nowhere. The cost is that it does nothing without active mana investment, making it a do-nothing blocker in slow games.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Feral Animist is a Commander card through and through — the format's high mana ceilings and abundance of mana doublers make its activated ability genuinely threatening. In 60-card competitive formats like Modern and Legacy, it's unplayable: three mana for a 2/2 with no immediate board impact is miles below rate, and opponents will never let you untap with enough mana to matter. Pioneer is the same story. Commander is the only context where Feral Animist earns a slot, specifically in decks that generate large mana pools — Selvala, Heart of the Wilds, Zaxara, the Exemplary, or any shell running Mana Reflection and Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger effects.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.13 bulk tier
At $0.13, Feral Animist is deep bulk — grab a copy out of a common box or toss it in any order hitting a free-shipping threshold. Bulk rares with narrow applications don't appreciate, so treat this as a pure gameplay pickup with no financial upside.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.