Razormane Masticore
Artifact Creature — Masticore
First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this creature unless you discard a card.
At the beginning of your draw step, you may have this creature deal 3 damage to target creature.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Tenth Edition
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #26040
Razormane Masticore lands as a 5/5 first striker that pings a creature for 3 every upkeep — free, automatic pressure that most boards can't ignore. The catch is a discard on your upkeep and sacrificing it if you can't pay, so it rewards decks that either empty their hand fast or turn the discard into an advantage.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Razormane Masticore sees essentially no play in Legacy, Modern, or Vintage — five mana for a creature with an upkeep tax is too slow against the threats those formats present at that cost. Commander is its real home: the combination of automatic creature removal and a 5/5 first striker scales well against token strategies and small utility creatures that clog the board in multiplayer, and the discard cost is manageable in any deck built around reanimation, graveyard synergy, or fast hand-dumping. Oathbreaker is similar — legal and potentially useful in grind-oriented black or colorless builds, but five mana competes with a lot.
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Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Price data isn't currently available for Razormane Masticore, so check Scryfall or TCGplayer for a live number. Historically it's been a bulk-to-low-dollar card given its narrow playability, so if you're building a discard or reanimator shell in Commander, it's almost certainly an easy pickup.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.