Shambling Strider
Creature — Yeti
: This creature gets +1/-1 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GR
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Ice Age
- Price
- $0.13
- EDHREC rank
- #30872
Shambling Strider enters as a 6/5 that immediately lobs -2/-2 at a creature or planeswalker, giving you a relevant body and a removal trigger stapled together. The seven-mana price tag is steep, but you're buying both halves at once with no setup required.
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 |
Shambling Strider is a Commander card through and through — the format's higher life totals and multiplayer threat density make a 6/5 with an ETB ping more palatable at seven mana, especially in decks that flicker or reanimate for repeated triggers. In Legacy and Vintage it's unplayable; those formats are too fast and efficient for a seven-drop that doesn't end the game. Pauper is the one non-rotating format where Shambling Strider is legal and occasionally relevant, since common-slot creatures at this size are scarce, though the competition even there is stiff.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.13 bulk tier
At $0.13, Shambling Strider sits firmly in bulk territory — you're picking this up as throw-in filler, not hunting it down. Bulk rares and uncommons at this price rarely move unless a deck archetype breaks them out, and nothing on the horizon points there.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.