Sabertooth Nishoba
Creature — Cat Beast Warrior
Trample, protection from blue and from red
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GW
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Invasion
- Price
- $0.30
- EDHREC rank
- #27106
Sabertooth Nishoba lands as a 5/5 trample, protection from blue and black for five mana — genuinely threatening stats with relevant keyword coverage. The cost is that it does nothing else: no enters-the-battlefield effect, no engine, just a beater that wins combat and dies to white or red removal.
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 |
Sabertooth Nishoba sees essentially no play in Legacy or Vintage — those formats move too fast for a five-mana vanilla threat with no immediate impact. Commander is the only realistic home, and even there it competes against a deep pool of five-drops that generate card advantage or combo potential on top of their stats. The protection from blue and black is genuinely useful in a format where Cyclonic Rift and Toxic Deluge are everywhere, but that's a narrow argument for a card that still does nothing the turn it enters.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.30 bulk tier
At $0.30, Sabertooth Nishoba is pure bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not power. That price is stable by default; there's no demand engine to push it up or down.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.