Slumbering Tora
Artifact
, Discard a Spirit or Arcane card: This artifact becomes an X/X Cat artifact creature until end of turn, where X is the discarded card's mana value.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Betrayers of Kamigawa
- Price
- $0.18
- EDHREC rank
- #30206
Slumbering Tora is a 0/0 that enters play doing nothing and stays that way until you discard a card — at which point it becomes a 3/3 with no evasion and no staying power. The effect is underpowered for the cost of a card from hand, and any deck that wants a discard outlet has better options.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Slumbering Tora is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but sees essentially no competitive play in any of them. In Commander, discard-matters builds like Anje Falkenrath or Syr Konrad, the Grim want payoffs that generate ongoing value, not a single 3/3 that sits inert until you feed it a card. In Legacy and Vintage, the card is simply too slow and too low-impact to register. Slumbering Tora occupies a design space — discard synergy on a creature — that better cards have long since claimed.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.18 bulk tier
At $0.18, Slumbering Tora is pure bulk, and there's no pressure driving that price up. It's cheap enough to try in a casual brew without hesitation, but don't expect demand to move the needle.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.