Ornery Tumblewagg
Creature — Brushwagg Mount
At the beginning of combat on your turn, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.
Whenever this creature attacks while saddled, double the number of +1/+1 counters on target creature.
Saddle 2 (Tap any number of other creatures you control with total power 2 or more: This Mount becomes saddled until end of turn. Saddle only as a sorcery.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Outlaws of Thunder Junction
- Price
- $0.30
- EDHREC rank
- #4689
Ornery Tumblewagg enters with a +1/+1 counter on each other creature you control, which in a counter-heavy shell means it can swing board state the moment it lands. The cost is real — Crystalline Crawler and Sab-Sunen, Luxa Embodied decks pay that price gladly, but outside of dedicated counters builds it's just a vanilla-adjacent beater.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Sab-Sunen, Luxa Embodied
Sab-Sunen, Luxa Embodied turns every counter placement into mana or cards, and Ornery Tumblewagg's mass-distribution trigger is exactly the kind of one-shot burst that makes that engine spike — 46% inclusion across Sab-Sunen decks is a clear endorsement.
Halana and Alena, Partners
Halana and Alena, Partners already hands out +1/+1 counters on attack, so Ornery Tumblewagg's enter-the-battlefield spread compounds the counter count before combat even starts.
Me, the Immortal
Me, the Immortal cares about stacking counters across as many permanents as possible, and Ornery Tumblewagg delivers a wide distribution instantly rather than one creature at a time.
Skullbriar, the Walking Grave
Skullbriar, the Walking Grave wants to grow fast and hit hard, and Ornery Tumblewagg gives the whole board — Skullbriar included — a free counter boost the turn it enters.
Agatha of the Vile Cauldron
Agatha of the Vile Cauldron converts +1/+1 counters into mana production, so Ornery Tumblewagg's mass trigger is a setup play that immediately increases how much mana the board can generate.
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 |
Ornery Tumblewagg is legal in every major Constructed format but sees essentially no play outside Commander — the effect is too slow and too conditional for Modern or Pioneer, where three mana needs to do something reliably powerful on its own. In Standard it's a fringe consideration only if a dedicated counters deck needs more redundancy and has exhausted better options. Commander is the format that actually wants it: the wide board of a multiplayer game makes the enter-the-battlefield trigger scale better than anywhere else, and the counter synergies that exist in EDH — proliferate engines, Doubling Season effects, commanders that reward counter placement — give Ornery Tumblewagg a real home.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Ornery TumblewaggCrystalline CrawlerAggravated Assault
Infinite colored mana; Infinite combat phases; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce; Infinite untap of creatures you control; Infinite +1/+1 counters on creatures you control
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Ornery TumblewaggCrystalline CrawlerHellkite Charger
Infinite colored mana; Infinite combat phases; Infinite +1/+1 counters on creatures you control
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Ornery TumblewaggCrystalline CrawlerNajeela, the Blade-Blossom
Infinite colored mana; Infinite combat phases; Infinite creature tokens with haste; Infinite ETB; Infinite +1/+1 counters on creatures you control
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Current price
$0.30 bulk tier
At $0.30, Ornery Tumblewagg is firmly bulk, priced in line with its narrow application. It holds that floor as long as counter-based Commander archetypes stay popular, but there's no pressure pushing it higher.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.