Linebreaker Baloth
Creature — Beast
Enlist (As this creature attacks, you may tap a nonattacking creature you control without summoning sickness. When you do, add its power to this creature's until end of turn.)
This creature can't be blocked by creatures with power 2 or less.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Dominaria United
- Price
- $0.09
- EDHREC rank
- #23780
Linebreaker Baloth hits the table as a 6/6 with trample that makes all your creatures unblockable until end of turn — the kind of immediate, game-ending pressure that closes out stalled boards. Six mana for that effect is a real cost, but when it resolves, the game usually ends.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Linebreaker Baloth is a Commander card through and through — the format's longer games give you the mana to cast it and the wide boards to make its attack trigger catastrophic. In Modern or Pioneer, six mana for a creature that does nothing until combat is too slow against counterspells and removal that answers it before you ever swing. Legacy and Vintage don't want it either; the formats are too fast and too efficient. Stick to Commander, where a 6/6 that blanks all blockers on a developed board is a legitimate finisher in any green stompy or token shell.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.09 bulk tier
At $0.09, Linebreaker Baloth is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not the card. That price reflects low demand rather than low power; if it finds a home in a popular precon or spikes in a specific archetype, bulk rarely stays bulk, but at this moment it's a free inclusion for any deck that wants it.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.