Progenitus

Legendary Creature — Hydra Avatar

Protection from everything
If Progenitus would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, reveal Progenitus and shuffle it into its owner's library instead.

CMC
10
Mana cost
{W}{W}{U}{U}{B}{B}{R}{R}{G}{G}
Color identity
BGRUW
Rarity
mythic
Set
Conflux
Price
$4.14
EDHREC rank
#6561
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Progenitus card art
Progenitus hits the table as a 10/10 with protection from everything — it can't be targeted, blocked by anything relevant, or removed by most answers in the game. Ten mana is the real cost, which means it lives and dies by whether your deck can cheat it into play or tutor it efficiently, and Captain Sisay does exactly that.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander
legacy
modern
pioneer
standard
vintage
pauper
oathbreaker

Commander is where Progenitus belongs — the format has enough reanimation, cheat-into-play effects, and legendary tutors to make ten mana irrelevant. In Legacy and Vintage it sees fringe play in Show and Tell shells where the mana cost never matters, but it competes with Emrakul, the Aeons Torn for that slot and usually loses. Modern, Pioneer, and Standard offer no reliable way to cheat it out, so Progenitus sits in those formats as a theoretical card rather than a practical one. Oathbreaker can run it as a signature spell target in niche builds, but the ten-mana ceiling is brutal without the singleton density of tutors Commander provides.

Key Combos

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Price Context

Current price

$4.14 cheap tier

At $4.14, Progenitus is cheap for what it does — a ten-mana mythic with a unique protection clause that sees real Commander play. The price reflects reprint availability more than demand, and it's a low-risk pickup for any deck that can reliably cheat or tutor it.

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