Rampaging Spiketail
Creature — Dinosaur
When this creature enters, target creature you control gets +2/+0 and gains indestructible until end of turn.
Swampcycling 
(, Discard this card: Search your library for a Swamp card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The Lost Caverns of Ixalan
- Price
- $0.13
- EDHREC rank
- #14679
Rampaging Spiketail lands as a 4/4 trampler with a built-in soft counter stapled to it — pay one mana when it enters or attacks, and target spell gets countered unless its controller pays two extra. The cost is four mana for a vanilla-sized body outside that trigger, which makes it a role-player rather than a staple.
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, Rampaging Spiketail earns a slot in Dinosaur tribal decks or any shell that can flicker or recur it to retrigger the counterspell effect repeatedly. Outside tribal synergy, four mana for a creature-based counter is a harder sell when dedicated counterspells or cheaper disruption exist. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer, it doesn't make the cut — the rate is too slow and the body too small relative to what those formats demand. Pauper is where the trample plus disruption package has the most novelty, though even there the mana investment is steep for an aggro or tempo shell.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.13 bulk tier
At $0.13, Rampaging Spiketail is bulk — pick it up without a second thought if the synergy fits. Bulk commons and uncommons at this price floor don't appreciate, so buy it to play it, not to hold it.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.