Leviathan
Creature — Leviathan
Trample
This creature enters tapped and doesn't untap during your untap step.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may sacrifice two Islands. If you do, untap this creature.
This creature can't attack unless you sacrifice two Islands. (This cost is paid as attackers are declared.)
- CMC
- 9
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- special
- Set
- Time Spiral Timeshifted
- Price
- $0.29
- EDHREC rank
- #24818
Leviathan puts a 10/10 trample body on the board — one of the biggest creatures ever printed — but the cost is genuinely punishing: sacrifice two islands to attack, and two more to untap it at the start of your turn. The upkeep tax means Leviathan actively drains your mana base every turn cycle, and the overwhelming majority of Commander decks have no interest in paying it.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Leviathan is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but sees essentially no competitive play in any of them. In Commander, a 10/10 trample for nine mana is the floor of what big blue decks want, and those decks consistently find better options without the island-sacrifice clause dragging down their mana development. In Legacy and Vintage, the format speed makes a nine-mana creature with a crippling upkeep cost unplayable outside of casual settings. Leviathan is a curiosity — an artifact of early Magic design — not a serious consideration in any current format.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.29 bulk tier
At $0.29, Leviathan sits firmly in bulk territory, which is exactly where its playability puts it. Don't expect the price to move — there's no competitive demand pulling it up, and casual nostalgia alone won't change that.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.