Reckless Pangolin

Creature — Pangolin

Whenever this creature attacks, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
common
Set
Treasure Chest
Price
EDHREC rank
#30365
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Reckless Pangolin card art
Reckless Pangolin is a 2/4 for two mana with a relevant creature type and a drawback that punishes you for having a full grip — playable in dedicated aggressive or tribal shells, irrelevant elsewhere. You run it when the body and type line matter more than the hand-size tax.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander
legacy
modern
pioneer
standard
vintage
pauper
oathbreaker

In Commander, Reckless Pangolin is a fringe inclusion at best — 40-life tables and card-advantage-heavy metas mean the hand-size drawback gets punished constantly, and a 2/4 vanilla-adjacent creature rarely makes the cut in a 99-card singleton format. Pauper is where Reckless Pangolin has the most plausible home, where efficient bodies at common rarity are scarce and aggressive two-drops compete for slots on raw stats. Legacy and Vintage are legal but effectively irrelevant — neither format has any reason to register this card over the deep pools of efficient creatures available.

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Price Context

Current price

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Pricing data for Reckless Pangolin isn't currently available, but as a common with narrow applications it almost certainly sits at bulk — under $0.25 in paper. Pick it up in a bulk bin if you need it; there's no reason to pay a premium.

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    Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.