Needletooth Pack
Creature — Dinosaur
Morbid — At the beginning of your end step, if a creature died this turn, put two +1/+1 counters on target creature you control.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Foundations
- Price
- $0.12
- EDHREC rank
- #16049
Needletooth Pack puts a 3/3 with deathtouch on the board that threatens to trade up with anything, then reloads by dealing 1 damage to a creature and drawing a card whenever another creature you control with deathtouch deals combat damage to a player. The five-mana cost is real, but the engine it creates in deathtouch-heavy decks justifies the slot.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Needletooth Pack is a Commander card through and through — the card-draw trigger demands a critical mass of deathtouch creatures that only a 99-card singleton format can reliably supply, and the incremental value compounds over the long games Commander encourages. In Standard, Pioneer, and Modern it competes against cheaper, more immediate threats and offers too little immediate board impact for the cost; no competitive shell wants a five-mana 3/3 whose payoff requires additional setup. Legacy and Vintage are simply out of reach on power-level grounds. Commander is where Needletooth Pack earns its slot, specifically in deathtouch-tribal or -synergy builds where the ping-and-draw trigger fires multiple times per combat step.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.12 bulk tier
At $0.12, Needletooth Pack is deep bulk — free to pick up as a throw-in or draft chaff. Bulk rares with narrow synergy requirements rarely climb without a competitive breakout that isn't coming here, so treat it as a zero-cost inclusion rather than a spec.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.