Intrusive Packbeast
Creature — Beast
Vigilance
When this creature enters, tap up to two target creatures your opponents control.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Guilds of Ravnica
- Price
- $0.03
- EDHREC rank
- #28896
Intrusive Packbeast taps up to two target artifacts or creatures when it enters, which is a real effect — tempo disruption on a 3/3 body for five mana is where the value stops, though. It's a Limited card that rarely makes the cut in constructed formats where better options exist at every point on the curve.
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 |
Intrusive Packbeast is legal in Commander, Pauper, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but context changes its ceiling dramatically depending on the format. In Pauper it's the most viable — the tap effect at common can matter in slower, more interactive games where freezing two blockers or artifacts is genuinely disruptive. In Commander, five mana for a enters-the-battlefield tap effect on a vanilla 3/3 is a steep ask when Blinding Angel, Kor Cartographer variants, and more impactful five-drops are all available at the same rarity tier. In Modern, Pioneer, Legacy, and Vintage it simply doesn't compete — those formats move too fast and the payoff is too low to justify the slot.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.03 bulk tier
At $0.03, Intrusive Packbeast is deep bulk — the kind of card you pick out of a common box rather than order. It holds that price floor indefinitely; there's no spike scenario for a five-mana 3/3 with a conditional tap effect.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.