Rampart Smasher
Creature — Giant
This creature can't be blocked by Knights or Walls.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GR
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Throne of Eldraine
- Price
- $0.07
- EDHREC rank
- #29100
Rampart Smasher is a 6/6 trampler that can't be blocked by Walls or creatures with defender — a clean, punishing threat for five mana in Gruul colors. The stat line is real, but five mana for a vanilla-adjacent beater with a narrow evasion clause rarely clears the bar in competitive Commander.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Rampart Smasher finds a home in Gruul stompy builds that want bodies which demand an answer — specifically anywhere a 6/6 trample with pseudo-evasion pulls its weight in the red zone. Competitive pods won't touch it; the effect is too narrow and the mana cost too high for what you get. In Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer it's effectively invisible — format staples outclass it on rate by a wide margin, and the defender-hate clause almost never matters. Oathbreaker follows the same logic as Commander: fine in a beatdown shell, absent from anything tuned.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.07 bulk tier
At $0.07, Rampart Smasher sits firmly in bulk territory — buy it out of a commons box, not a singles order. Bulk rares with narrow applications don't appreciate, so there's no reason to hold multiples.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.