Gray Slaad // Entropic Decay
Creature — Frog Horror // Sorcery — Adventure
As long as there are four or more creature cards in your graveyard, this creature has menace and deathtouch.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate
- Price
- $0.17
- EDHREC rank
- #15954
Gray Slaad // Entropic Decay puts a 4/4 on board that clocks opponents while the back half doubles as a late-game removal spell — two relevant effects on one card. The cost is real: five mana for a vanilla-statted creature with no immediate impact means it competes hard for its slot.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Gray Slaad // Entropic Decay fills a niche in spells-matter and graveyard-recursion shells where having a creature and an instant stapled together creates two lines of play from one card. The adventure template means you can cast Entropic Decay first to clear a blocker and cast the creature later, which gives you flexibility most five-drops can't offer. In Pauper, the card is legal but the five-mana body doesn't clear the bar set by the format's efficient threats. Legacy and Vintage legality is academic — the power level doesn't register in either format.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.17 bulk tier
At $0.17, Gray Slaad // Entropic Decay is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not scarcity. Bulk adventure creatures rarely spike unless a commander archetype adopts them wholesale, so treat this as a low-risk pickup for any list that wants it.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.