Shifting Ceratops
Creature — Dinosaur
This spell can't be countered.
Protection from blue (This creature can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, enchanted, or equipped by anything blue.)
: This creature gains your choice of reach, trample, or haste until end of turn.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander
- Price
- $0.28
- EDHREC rank
- #8454
Shifting Ceratops is a five-mana 5/4 with protection from blue, reach, trample, and the ability to pay two mana to give itself one of those keywords until end of turn — a flexible, resilient threat that blue-heavy tables struggle to interact with. The cost is real: five mana for a vanilla-statted creature is slow, and it does nothing the turn it enters.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Shifting Ceratops earns its slot in green creature decks that expect counterspell-heavy blue opponents — protection from blue means it resolves through most interaction and dodges Cyclonic Rift's overload. In Modern and Pioneer it has never broken through, because five mana for a creature with no enters-the-battlefield effect is too slow against proactive threats and removal that doesn't care about blue protection. Legacy and Vintage are the same story: the card is legal but irrelevant at those power levels. Shifting Ceratops is a Commander-only roleplayer, and even there it's a meta call rather than a staple.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.28 bulk tier
At $0.28, Shifting Ceratops is deep bulk — easy to pick up without a second thought. It won't appreciate; demand is narrow enough that the price is stable at the floor.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.