Saurian Symbiote
Creature — Fungus Dinosaur
Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)
When this creature enters, choose one —
• Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
• Create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Foundations Jumpstart
- Price
- $0.14
- EDHREC rank
- #20575
Saurian Symbiote puts a +1/+1 counter on a creature and untaps it — for free, no mana cost — whenever you cast a Dinosaur. The catch is that this trigger only fires when Saurian Symbiote is already in play, so the value is entirely dependent on your creature density and sequencing.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is the natural home for Saurian Symbiote — Dinosaur tribal decks led by commanders like Gishath, Sun's Avatar or Pantlaza, Sun-Favored generate enough triggers to make the free untap and counter accumulation genuinely threatening. Outside Commander, the card is legal in Legacy, Vintage, and Pauper, but Dinosaurs have no competitive footprint in those formats, so Saurian Symbiote is effectively unplayable there. Pauper is the only other format worth a passing thought if a Dinosaur synergy shell ever materializes at common, but it hasn't.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.14 bulk tier
At $0.14, Saurian Symbiote is deep bulk — you're paying for a slot, not a card. That price is stable in the way irrelevance is stable: there's no demand pressure to push it up, and it's already too cheap to fall further.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.