Mount Velus Manticore
Enchantment Creature — Manticore
At the beginning of combat on your turn, you may discard a card. When you do, this creature deals X damage to any target, where X is the number of card types the discarded card has.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Modern Horizons 2
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #28341
Mount Velus Manticore gives your entire team double strike until end of turn — on a 5/4 flying, trample body that attacks the same turn it enters. Five mana for that kind of board-wide alpha strike is a genuine rate, not a meme.
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 |
Mount Velus Manticore is a pauper-legal common, which is where it sees the most competitive consideration — red aggro and Gruul stompy shells can close games with the team-wide double strike trigger off a single swing. In Commander, it earns a slot in go-wide red or Naya attack decks: Zirda, the Dawnwaker and Feather-style commanders don't want it, but Isshin, Two Heavens as One and token-heavy lists treat the trigger as a budget Temur Battle Rage for the whole board. Legacy and Vintage are too fast and too efficient for a five-mana creature with no enters-the-battlefield protection to matter.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Mount Velus Manticore is pure bulk — you're not buying it for value, you're buying it because it's nearly free. That price isn't going anywhere; it's a common with narrow competitive appeal, so treat it as a role-player you sleeve up and forget about the cost.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.