Mosscoat Goriak
Creature — Beast
Vigilance
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths
- Price
- $0.10
- EDHREC rank
- #28366
Mosscoat Goriak is a 3/4 with ward 2 for four mana — a body that demands two extra mana to target, which makes it genuinely annoying to kill with spot removal. It's a fine blocker and a passable ward-synergy enabler, but four mana for a vanilla-ish creature is a tough sell in most powered lists.
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 |
Mosscoat Goriak is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but its relevance is almost entirely limited to Pauper and low-power Commander. In Pauper, a 3/4 with ward 2 for four mana is a real roadblock — removal is cheaper and more common, so taxing each spell two mana has genuine bite. In Commander, the ward trigger slows down targeted removal at the table, which matters more in battlecruiser pods than in tuned ones. Anywhere above Pauper in constructed — Modern, Pioneer, Legacy, Vintage — Mosscoat Goriak is outclassed before it ever hits the table.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.10 bulk tier
At $0.10, Mosscoat Goriak is deep bulk, and that price is appropriate for what it does. There's no trajectory that pushes a four-mana vanilla-adjacent common higher unless a future commander breaks ward synergies wide open.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.