Ravenous Necrotitan
Creature — Phyrexian Horror
Corrupted — When this creature enters, sacrifice a creature unless an opponent has three or more poison counters.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Phyrexia: All Will Be One
- Price
- $0.15
- EDHREC rank
- #21747
Ravenous Necrotitan is a 7/6 trampler for four mana — the stat line is obscene — but it forces you to sacrifice a creature at the beginning of each upkeep or sacrifice it instead, which means it eats your board alive unless you're building around that cost. Run it because you want the sacrifice trigger, not despite it.
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 |
Ravenous Necrotitan is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but its real home is Commander, where sacrifice synergies are abundant enough to turn the upkeep cost into a resource. In Modern and Pioneer, a four-mana creature that demands a continuous sacrifice is too slow and too reliant on board state to compete with what those formats are doing on turns three and four. Legacy and Vintage move even faster and have no interest in a creature that needs a support structure to function. In Commander, pair it with sacrifice payoffs — aristocrats engines, Dictate of Erebos effects, or reanimator loops — and the upkeep trigger becomes the whole point.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.15 bulk tier
At $0.15, Ravenous Necrotitan is pure bulk, which is accurate given how narrow its home is. The price is unlikely to move — it's not a card that suddenly finds a broken interaction; it's a build-around piece that rewards the right shell and costs almost nothing to test.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.