Salt Road Packbeast
Creature — Beast
Affinity for creatures (This spell costs 
less to cast for each creature you control.)
When this creature enters, draw a card.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Tarkir: Dragonstorm
- Price
- $0.17
- EDHREC rank
- #16917
Salt Road Packbeast is a five-mana 3/5 that taps to untap another creature or artifact — a marginal body with a marginal activated ability. Slower formats might find niche uses for it, but it's outclassed in nearly every context where untap effects actually matter.
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 |
Salt Road Packbeast sees essentially no competitive play across any format. In Commander, the five-mana cost for a 3/5 with a tap-to-untap ability is far too slow when dedicated untap enablers like Freed from the Real or Pemmin's Aura exist at a fraction of the opportunity cost. Pauper is the one format where budget constraints tighten the card pool enough that Salt Road Packbeast could theoretically appear in a tap-focused list, but even there better commons exist. In constructed formats like Pioneer and Modern, it simply doesn't make the cut.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.17 bulk tier
At $0.17, Salt Road Packbeast is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not utility. Don't expect the price to move; nothing in its design profile suggests a breakout role is waiting.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.