Sagu Pummeler
Creature — Beast
Reach
Renew — , Exile this card from your graveyard: Put two +1/+1 counters and a reach counter on target creature. Activate only as a sorcery.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Tarkir: Dragonstorm
- Price
- $0.09
- EDHREC rank
- #20157
Sagu Pummeler hits the board as a 6/6 with trample and hexproof for six mana — that combination of keywords makes it nearly impossible to answer without a board wipe. The cost is purely opportunity: six mana is a lot to ask for a creature that does nothing the turn it enters and wins no games on its own.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Sagu Pummeler is a role-player at best — hexproof and trample matter in a format full of targeted removal, but a vanilla 6/6 with no enters-the-battlefield effect and no way to close a game quickly gets outclassed by the time you untap with it. Outside Commander, it doesn't register: six mana for a do-nothing threat is unplayable in Pioneer, Modern, and Legacy, where the format has moved far past the point where raw stats on a slow threat win games. Standard legality is technically on the table, but the card has never been competitively relevant there either. This is a Commander-only conversation, and even in that context it belongs only in decks that specifically reward hexproof creatures or pump them past the point where a 6/6 feels underwhelming.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.09 bulk tier
At $0.09, Sagu Pummeler is deep bulk — you're paying almost nothing, and that price reflects the demand accurately. It holds no financial value and is unlikely to move absent a specific reprint vehicle or an unlikely spike in hexproof-matters strategies.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.