Placid Rottentail
Creature — Fungus Rabbit
Vigilance
, Exile this card from your graveyard: Put two +1/+1 counters on target creature. Activate only as a sorcery.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- March of the Machine
- Price
- $0.18
- EDHREC rank
- #15762
Placid Rottentail is a 2/4 reach creature for three mana that enters the battlefield already carrying a +1/+1 counter, making it immediately relevant for counter-synergy commanders. Finneas, Ace Archer turns that counter into a free damage trigger, which is the only context where Placid Rottentail earns its slot.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Finneas, Ace Archer
Finneas, Ace Archer pings a target for each +1/+1 counter that enters the battlefield, so Placid Rottentail's enters-with-a-counter clause translates directly into a free point of damage on arrival — and the 2/4 reach body keeps blocking relevant for the long game.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Placid Rottentail is a role-player, not a staple — it belongs in dedicated +1/+1 counter builds and nowhere else. Pauper is the one format where a 2/4 reach body for three mana occasionally sees honest daylight in slower green creature shells, but even there it competes with more efficient options. In every Constructed format where it's legal — Legacy, Vintage, Modern, Pioneer — Placid Rottentail is too underpowered to register; the counter payoff is too small and the body too fair to justify inclusion at any competitive table.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.18 bulk tier
At $0.18, Placid Rottentail is deep bulk — the kind of card you pull from a common box rather than order individually. That price is stable by definition: there's no upward pressure driving it, and it will sit at bulk floor indefinitely unless a future counter-synergy commander makes it suddenly ubiquitous.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.