Rumbling Sentry
Creature — Giant
When this creature enters, scry 1.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Theros Beyond Death
- Price
- $0.06
- EDHREC rank
- #29514
Rumbling Sentry is a five-mana 4/4 with vigilance — a statline that was passable years ago and is simply outclassed now. The floor on five-mana creatures has risen too high for a vanilla-adjacent body with no enters-the-battlefield effect, no keywords beyond vigilance, and no synergy hooks to justify the slot.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Rumbling Sentry is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legal and playable are different things. In Commander, a five-mana 4/4 with vigilance doesn't move the needle — the format demands that every slot either accelerate your game plan, protect it, or close it out. Pauper is the one format where raw stats matter more and common-card restrictions create real floors, but even there, five mana is a lot to pay for a body with no immediate impact. Across every format where Rumbling Sentry is legal, there is a cheaper, more efficient, or more synergistic creature doing the same job better.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.06 bulk tier
At $0.06, Rumbling Sentry sits firmly in bulk territory — the kind of card that ends up in a collection binder, not a deck list. The price reflects the demand accurately: Rumbling Sentry sees virtually no competitive or casual play, and there is no meaningful floor holding its value above near-zero.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.