Matca Rioters
Creature — Human Warrior
Domain — Matca Rioters's power and toughness are each equal to the number of basic land types among lands you control.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Modern Masters 2015
- Price
- $0.12
- EDHREC rank
- #27983
Matca Rioters enters as a vanilla creature whose power and toughness equal the number of basic land types you control — ceiling of 5/5 for three mana if you're running all five, but nothing if your mana base is mono or dual. It's a payoff card, not an engine, and it does exactly what domain decks want: reward you for assembling the full five.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Matca Rioters is a Commander card first and almost exclusively. In five-color domain builds — Jodah, the Unifier, Esika, God of the Tree, or any Cascades of the Five Colors shell — it lands as a 5/5 for three mana, which is a rate worth playing. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but completely irrelevant; better domain payoffs exist and the format demands interaction, not vanilla bodies. Pauper is the one non-Commander format where Matca Rioters has seen actual play, since domain as an archetype has historically operated at common and the card is a genuine threat when fetching basics is part of your game plan.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.12 bulk tier
At $0.12, Matca Rioters is deep bulk — pick it up out of a bulk bin or grab a playset for pocket change. The price won't move; it's a narrow common with a ceiling tied to a very specific archetype.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.