Primordial Pachyderm
Creature — Elephant Avatar
Reach, trample
When this creature enters, you gain 2 life.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Price
- $0.11
- EDHREC rank
- #25757
Primordial Pachyderm is a 5/5 with ward 5 for five mana — that's a genuinely hard-to-remove body at an efficient rate. The ward cost is punishing enough that most tables will leave it alone, which is exactly what you want from a green beatstick.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Primordial Pachyderm earns its slot in any green deck that wants a resilient threat without spending real resources to protect it — ward 5 prices out most targeted removal at the table. In competitive 60-card formats, it doesn't make the cut: five mana for a vanilla-adjacent creature loses to faster threats and cleaner payoffs in Modern and Pioneer. Pauper is the one non-Commander format where Primordial Pachyderm is worth a second look, since ward 5 is nearly impenetrable at common power levels, though the format still demands more than a 5/5 body to justify five mana.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.11 bulk tier
At $0.11, Primordial Pachyderm is deep bulk — buy a playset for the price of a pack of gum. Don't expect the price to move; a french-vanilla creature at rare has no scarcity ceiling holding it up.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.