Shivan Raptor
Creature — Dinosaur
First strike, haste
Echo 
(At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $0.10
- EDHREC rank
- #30088
Shivan Raptor is a 3/1 haste creature with a self-sacrificing echo cost — skip the echo payment and you get one free swing before it goes to the graveyard. The ceiling is a cheap, reusable sacrifice trigger; the floor is a vanilla 3/1 that dies on your next upkeep.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Shivan Raptor sees essentially no play in Legacy or Vintage despite being legal — the self-sacrifice mechanic is too slow and the body too small to compete at those tables. Commander is the only realistic home, and even there it needs a specific shell: sacrifice commanders like Prossh, Skyraider of Kher or Marchesa, the Black Rose who want cheap, repeatable fodder benefit most, since Shivan Raptor guarantees a death trigger every turn for free. Outside of dedicated sacrifice synergy, it is outclassed by creatures that offer the same sacrifice loop without the echo restriction.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.10 bulk tier
At $0.10, Shivan Raptor sits firmly in bulk territory — this is a pickup-a-playset-for-a-dollar card. Bulk commons and uncommons with narrow applications rarely climb in price, so treat it as a cheap role-player for sacrifice lists rather than a spec.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.