Rock Badger
Creature — Badger Beast
Mountainwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Mountain.)
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Mercadian Masques
- Price
- $0.23
- EDHREC rank
- #29864
Rock Badger is a 3/3 for five mana with mountainwalk — a keyword that only triggers if an opponent controls a Mountain, which in most pods it simply won't. The effect is too conditional and the rate too poor to justify a roster slot in any serious build.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Rock Badger is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legality is not the same as playability. In Commander, mountainwalk is dead text against the majority of the table unless you're forcing basic Mountains into opponents' hands with cards like Ruination or running a dedicated landwalk-matters shell — and even then, better options exist. In Pauper it competes against a field of efficient commons and loses that fight at five mana for a vanilla-adjacent body. Legacy and Vintage don't enter the conversation.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.23 bulk tier
At $0.23, Rock Badger is deep bulk — the price reflects demand, which is near zero. It won't appreciate; pick it up only if a specific mountainwalk gimmick deck calls for a fifth copy of the effect.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.