Macetail Hystrodon
Creature — Beast
First strike, haste
Cycling 
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- CMC
- 7
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Dominaria Remastered
- Price
- $0.03
- EDHREC rank
- #26821
Macetail Hystrodon is an 8/4 with first strike, haste, and trample for eight mana — the keywords are right, the cost is not. Seven mana buys you strictly better beaters in nearly every format, and at eight you expect either an immediate win or a replacement-level threat, neither of which this provides.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Macetail Hystrodon sees essentially no competitive play anywhere it's legal. In Commander, eight mana for a vanilla-adjacent creature with no enters-the-battlefield effect and no resilience is a hard sell when the format rewards haymakers that change the board state immediately. Pauper is the one context where the combined keyword package on a common body draws occasional curiosity, but even there the mana cost keeps it fringe at best. Legacy and Vintage have access to tools that make eight-mana creatures either irrelevant or redundant.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.03 bulk tier
At $0.03, Macetail Hystrodon is deep bulk — the floor of Magic card pricing. That price reflects demand accurately and is unlikely to move without an unlikely reprint synergy or format shift that nobody should count on.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.