Plated Geopede
Creature — Insect
First strike
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, this creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Zendikar
- Price
- $0.21
- EDHREC rank
- #22626
Plated Geopede swings as a 5/5 first striker the turn a fetchland cracks or a landfall trigger fires — that's a two-mana clock that demands an immediate answer. The ceiling is real, but it only reaches it in dedicated landfall shells; outside of those, it's a vanilla 1/1.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Plated Geopede earns a slot only in landfall decks — Omnath builds and similar land-drop-heavy strategies that chain fetches and ramp spells to trigger it multiple times per turn cycle. In Pauper it has seen fringe play in aggressive landfall lists, where the power-to-mana-cost ratio is genuinely competitive at common, though it remains a fringe choice. Legacy and Vintage have access to it but ignore it; the threat density in those formats makes a conditional 1/1 irrelevant. Modern has more viable landfall shells, but Plated Geopede still sits outside the competitive core there — better payoffs exist at the same cost.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.21 bulk tier
At $0.21, Plated Geopede is bulk by any measure — you'll find copies in any common box. The price is stable at the floor; there's no demand driver that would move it up unless a landfall build breaks into a competitive metagame spotlight.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.