Greater Basilisk
Creature — Basilisk
Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $0.23
- EDHREC rank
- #22920
Greater Basilisk is a 3/5 deathtouch creature for five mana — it trades with anything it blocks or attacks into, and the 5 toughness means it survives most non-deathtouch combat. The problem is five mana for a vanilla-statted creature with no enters-the-battlefield effect and no evasion is a bad deal in any format with better deathtouch options available.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Greater Basilisk is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but seeing play in essentially none of them. In Commander, deathtouch blockers have been thoroughly outclassed — Acidic Slime, Hornet Queen, and Ohran Frostfang all cost the same or less and do significantly more work. In Pauper, where the card is also legal, five mana for a do-nothing body competes poorly against commons with actual utility. Greater Basilisk is a Limited card that never made the jump to Constructed relevance.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.23 bulk tier
At $0.23, Greater Basilisk is deep bulk — you'll find copies in any common box at your local game store. That price is stable purely because demand is flat, not because the card holds competitive utility.
Explore
Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.