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Overgrown Armasaur

Creature — Dinosaur

Enrage — Whenever this creature is dealt damage, create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{3}{G}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
common
Set
The List
Price
$0.28
EDHREC rank
#15911
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Overgrown Armasaur card art
Overgrown Armasaur enters with a pile of 1/1 Dinosaur tokens equal to its power — in a Wayta, Trainer Prodigy shell that repeatedly probes creatures, that's a token engine stapled to a body. The cost is that it does nothing without a critical mass of power-matters or enters-the-battlefield payoffs like Warstorm Surge, making it a build-around rather than a standalone threat.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Wayta, Trainer Prodigy

Wayta, Trainer Prodigy

16.6% of decks · synergy 0.16

Wayta, Trainer Prodigy probes your creatures as a free, repeatable triggered ability, and Overgrown Armasaur turns every probe into a fresh wave of 1/1 tokens — the more you probe it, the wider your board grows without spending additional cards.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper legal
oathbreaker legal

Overgrown Armasaur lives almost entirely in Commander, where the singleton rule is no obstacle and token-flooding a 100-card battlefield is genuinely threatening. In Pauper it's legal but competes against faster, more consistent commons — the token payoff rarely materializes before the game ends. Modern, Pioneer, Legacy, and Vintage are all too hostile for a five-mana 5/5 that needs setup to generate value; it won't see competitive play in those formats. Commander is the only home where Overgrown Armasaur's ceiling is actually reachable.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.28 bulk tier

At $0.28, Overgrown Armasaur is deep bulk — easy to pick up as a throw-in or cheap order filler. It's a niche build-around with a small target audience, so don't expect the price to move unless a new Commander printing dramatically raises the demand for token-on-entry Dinosaurs.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.