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Frilled Deathspitter

Creature — Dinosaur

Enrage — Whenever this creature is dealt damage, it deals 2 damage to target opponent or planeswalker.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
common
Set
The List
Price
$0.15
EDHREC rank
#14078
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Frilled Deathspitter card art
Frilled Deathspitter deals 2 damage to each opponent whenever it becomes the target of a spell or ability you control — stack that trigger with Blazing Sunsteel's infinite-damage loop or Wayta, Trainer Prodigy's free-targeting ability and the table dies on the spot. The cost is a three-mana 2/3 with no inherent protection, so it's entirely reliant on a support shell to do anything meaningful.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Wayta, Trainer Prodigy

Wayta, Trainer Prodigy

38.2% of decks · synergy 0.37

Wayta, Trainer Prodigy can target Frilled Deathspitter for free once per turn, which already converts into 2 damage to each opponent every turn cycle — and once you add any damage-doubler or a second trigger outlet, the combination becomes a legitimate kill condition rather than a slow drain.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Frilled Deathspitter is a Commander card in practice, full stop. In competitive 60-card formats — Modern, Pioneer, Legacy — a 2/3 that asks you to target it repeatedly competes against threats and engines that simply do more without setup. Pauper is the one non-Commander format where cheap, high-upside commons get scrutinized, but even there the payoff requires too much infrastructure to be consistent. Commander is where Frilled Deathspitter belongs: multiplayer means the 2-damage trigger hits three opponents simultaneously, the format rewards creature-based combo engines, and dedicated Gruul-shell commanders provide the targeting redundancy the card demands.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.15 bulk tier

At $0.15, Frilled Deathspitter is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard and postage, not the card itself. Bulk combo pieces rarely climb unless they land in a precon or a breakout streamer deck, so treat this as a throw-in pickup rather than a spec.

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