Loathsome Catoblepas
Creature — Beast
: This creature must be blocked this turn if able.
When this creature dies, target creature an opponent controls gets -3/-3 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BG
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Theros
- Price
- $0.02
- EDHREC rank
- #30904
Loathsome Catoblepas trades a deathtouch body for a guaranteed destroy-target-creature trigger when it dies — real removal stapled to a creature. Six mana for a 3/3 with no immediate board impact until something kills it is the honest cost, and most tables will make you wait.
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 |
In Commander, Loathsome Catoblepas occupies a narrow lane: decks that want sacrifice fodder with a built-in removal payoff, particularly aristocrats shells running Golgari or black-heavy three-color builds. In Pauper it's legal but too slow and too conditional against decks that go wide or dodge single-target removal. Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Pioneer are simply too fast for a six-mana creature that requires another step — a death trigger — before it removes anything. Oathbreaker mirrors Commander's verdict: playable in the right aristocrats list, irrelevant everywhere else.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.02 bulk tier
At $0.02, Loathsome Catoblepas is deep bulk — you're picking it out of a commons box, not a store page. That price reflects demand accurately; there's no hidden value here and no reason to expect it to move.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.