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Pheres-Band Tromper

Creature — Centaur Warrior

Inspired — Whenever this creature becomes untapped, put a +1/+1 counter on it.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{3}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
common
Set
Born of the Gods
Price
$0.09
EDHREC rank
#25301
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Pheres-Band Tromper card art
Pheres-Band Tromper is a three-mana 3/3 that grows every time it becomes untapped — purely functional on its own, but pair it with Freed from the Real and it becomes an arbitrarily large threat with infinite untap triggers attached. The cost is that without an untap engine, it's just a vanilla-adjacent beater that most competitive tables will ignore entirely.

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

Pheres-Band Tromper sees essentially zero play in Legacy, Modern, or Pioneer — those formats move too fast for a three-mana 3/3 with a conditional upside. Pauper is the only non-Commander format worth mentioning, and even there the card doesn't clear the bar for competitive lists. Commander is where Pheres-Band Tromper actually has a home, specifically in centaur-tribal builds or untap-combo shells that can exploit its trigger repeatedly in a single turn cycle.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.09 bulk tier

At $0.09, Pheres-Band Tromper is pure bulk — the kind of card you pull from a common box rather than buy outright. There's no realistic demand spike coming, so treat it as a free inclusion if you already own one and nothing more.

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