Imposing Vantasaur
Creature — Dinosaur
Vigilance
Cycling 
(, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $0.11
- EDHREC rank
- #14748
Imposing Vantasaur lands as a 5/4 with ward 2 and cycling, which means it pulls weight on board and replaces itself when the board state doesn't need it. The cost is five mana with no immediate effect beyond a body — Ellie and Alan, Paleontologists is the home where that tradeoff clicks, because cycling counts as drawing for their trigger.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Ellie and Alan, Paleontologists
Ellie and Alan, Paleontologists care about drawing cards to generate Dinosaur tokens, and Imposing Vantasaur's cycling ability feeds that engine directly — cycle it to trigger the commanders and put a token into play, or keep it as a resilient threat when the board needs presence.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Imposing Vantasaur is a Commander card through and through — the combination of a relevant creature type, ward protection, and a cycling escape valve is exactly what slower singleton formats reward. In Pauper it's legal and the ward 2 tax is meaningfully expensive at common rates, though pure aggro decks have no interest in a five-drop that doesn't end games. Modern and Pioneer are too fast for a vanilla-adjacent five-mana creature with no enters-the-battlefield effect. Legacy and Vintage ignore it entirely.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.11 bulk tier
At $0.11, Imposing Vantasaur sits in deep bulk territory — it costs less than a sleeve. Bulk commons and uncommons with narrow tribal applications don't appreciate, so pick up copies for their utility and nothing else.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.