Riptide Mangler
Creature — Beast
: Change this creature's base power to target creature's power. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Legions
- Price
- $0.27
- EDHREC rank
- #27464
Riptide Mangler enters as a 1/1 and permanently steals the base power of any target creature — including your opponents' threats — turning their best attacker into a 1/1 while it becomes the new monster on board. The cost is that it trades long-term flexibility for a one-time ETB, and any bounce or blink resets the stolen value.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Riptide Mangler occupies a narrow niche: it punishes decks leaning on a single oversized creature, but a 99-card format full of redundancy means one stolen power stat rarely swings a game. Legacy and Vintage are legal formats but Riptide Mangler has never been a competitive consideration there — the card simply doesn't interact with the fast, non-creature-centric threats those formats are built around. Where it finds the most traction is in blink or flicker builds, where re-triggering the ETB lets you repeatedly reassign stolen power values.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.27 bulk tier
At $0.27, Riptide Mangler is deep bulk — you're paying for the card slot, not the card. The price is stable because demand is low and supply is plentiful; don't expect movement in either direction.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.