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Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant

Legendary Creature — Elder Dinosaur

Trample
When Ghalta enters, put any number of creature cards from your hand onto the battlefield.

CMC
8
Mana cost
{5}{G}{G}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
mythic
Set
The Lost Caverns of Ixalan
Price
$28.44
EDHREC rank
#1055
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Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant card art
Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant hits the board and immediately dumps your entire hand of creatures into play — at eight mana, that's a one-card army if you've been holding anything. The rate is absurd in green, and pairing it with Sakashima of a Thousand Faces or Owen Grady, Raptor Trainer // Blue, Loyal Raptor to copy the trigger turns a single resolved spell into a full board state.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Owen Grady, Raptor TrainerBlue, Loyal Raptor

Owen Grady, Raptor Trainer // Blue, Loyal Raptor

67.0% of decks · synergy 0.65

Owen Grady, Raptor Trainer // Blue, Loyal Raptor runs Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant in over 67% of decks because Ghalta's enter-the-battlefield dump refills the board with Dinosaurs that immediately become Raptor targets, collapsing several turns of setup into one.

02
Kona, Rescue Beastie

Kona, Rescue Beastie

60.7% of decks · synergy 0.51

Kona, Rescue Beastie is built around dropping oversized creatures ahead of curve, and Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant serves as both a payoff and a reload — cast it, empty your hand onto the battlefield, and Kona's cost-reduction keeps the chain moving.

03
Gishath, Sun's Avatar

Gishath, Sun's Avatar

62.5% of decks · synergy 0.50

Gishath, Sun's Avatar wants a deep Dinosaur bench to maximize its attack trigger, and Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant functions as a second mass-cheat effect — any Dinosaurs that didn't land off a Gishath swing can come down off Ghalta's ETB instead.

04
Pantlaza, Sun-Favored

Pantlaza, Sun-Favored

59.9% of decks · synergy 0.47

Pantlaza, Sun-Favored cares about the first Dinosaur entering each turn, so Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant's mass-deployment guarantees a cascade of discover triggers the moment it resolves.

05
Oviya, Automech Artisan

Oviya, Automech Artisan

50.0% of decks · synergy 0.40

Oviya, Automech Artisan generates large artifact creatures and wants ways to push them all into play at once; Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant's hand-dump ability converts a full grip of constructs into an instant board flood that Oviya can leverage the same turn.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant lives — the format's larger hand sizes and creature-heavy green strategies turn its ETB into a game-ending deployment, and 60-card formats rarely give you the setup required to make dumping a full hand of creatures reliably good. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer, eight mana is simply too slow without dedicated ramp, and similar payoffs are available at lower cost. Standard is legal but the card sees fringe play there for the same reason — the format's life span doesn't reward building around an eight-drop. Legacy and Vintage offer the fast mana to cheat the cost, but those formats' threat density makes Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant redundant next to faster win conditions.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

Tempting Wurm fills a similar mass-deployment role when opponents cast big spells — it's under $0.50 and can flood the board comparably if your curve is high, though it requires the right opponent trigger rather than being self-sufficient. Selvala's Stampede is the closest direct analogue at around $1, offering a table-wide version of the hand-dump for six mana, but it loses the raw consistency that Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant provides by putting the choice entirely in your hands.

Price Context

Current price

$28.44 premium tier

At $28.44, Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant sits firmly in the premium tier — it's the price of a card with a unique, nearly unreplaceable effect that shows up in multiple competitive archetypes. The price is justified if you're running Dinosaur tribal or any green strategy that regularly holds five-plus creatures in hand; if you're not building around the ETB, there are cheaper closers.

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