Molten-Tail Masticore
Artifact Creature — Masticore
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this creature unless you discard a card.
, Exile a creature card from your graveyard: This creature deals 4 damage to any target.
: Regenerate this creature.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Scars of Mirrodin
- Price
- $0.34
- EDHREC rank
- #28606
Molten-Tail Masticore puts a repeatable 4-damage sniper on the board that opponents cannot easily ignore — but you pay for it every upkeep by pitching a card from hand, and it demands a creature sacrifice to regenerate. The upkeep cost means it's a liability in any deck that can't feed it consistently; in decks built around discard or graveyard recursion, it's a genuine threat.
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 |
In Commander, Molten-Tail Masticore earns a slot in decks that want to discard repeatedly — Grenzo, Dungeon Warden reanimator lists, Chainer, Nightmare Adept builds, or any Madness shell that treats the upkeep cost as a resource rather than a penalty. In Legacy and Vintage it's too slow and too fragile against efficient removal to see serious play; the formats have better threats at four mana. Modern has long since moved past it for the same reason. Molten-Tail Masticore is a Commander-specific pickup, and even there it belongs in a narrow archetype rather than generic red lists.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.34 bulk tier
At $0.34, Molten-Tail Masticore is deep bulk — easy to pick up, and the price reflects its narrow application. Demand is too niche to push it off the floor, so don't expect movement unless a high-profile discard commander drives sudden interest.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.