Ravenous Sailback
Creature — Dinosaur
When this creature enters, choose one —
• This creature gains haste until end of turn.
• Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- March of the Machine
- Price
- $0.18
- EDHREC rank
- #14530
Ravenous Sailback is a flash 5/4 that grows whenever an opponent casts an instant or sorcery during your turn — a legitimate combat threat that also punishes spell-heavy pods. The cost is a five-mana investment for a creature with no built-in protection, which means it earns its slot only in decks that specifically reward instants, flash, or countering the stack.
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, Ravenous Sailback earns a seat in spellslinger and flash-matters decks where opponents are routinely casting interaction on your turn and every +1/+1 counter translates to closing damage. Outside of those shells it's just a vanilla-adjacent five-drop, and the format's threat density is too high to run vanilla. In competitive non-rotating formats like Legacy and Vintage, Ravenous Sailback has no meaningful role — those formats kill faster and demand more from a five-mana creature than a conditional pump trigger. Modern and Pioneer are similar: the card lacks the immediate board impact or redundancy those formats require.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.18 bulk tier
At $0.18, Ravenous Sailback is deep bulk — easy to pick up as a throw-in or draft leftover. Bulk rares with narrow synergy requirements rarely climb on their own, so don't expect this to move without a dedicated Commander printing or breakout decklist.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.