Spike-Tailed Ceratops
Creature — Dinosaur
This creature can block an additional creature each combat.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Ixalan
- Price
- $0.06
- EDHREC rank
- #22089
Spike-Tailed Ceratops is a 5/4 with vigilance and trample for five mana — a clean rate that demands an answer the turn it lands. Bulk rare territory, but the stats are honest and the keywords do real work in combat.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Spike-Tailed Ceratops earns its slot exclusively in Dinosaur tribal builds — outside that context, a vanilla-adjacent five-drop competes poorly against the format's card advantage engines and combo pieces. Pauper is where the card actually has legs: a 5/4 vigilance trample at common is above-rate for the format's ground-based green stompy lists, and the keyword combination genuinely pressures opponents. Modern, Legacy, and Vintage have zero interest — those formats answer this threat before it matters and don't need the stats. Pioneer is the same story: too slow, too fair. Stick to Pauper aggro or Commander Dinosaur shells and Spike-Tailed Ceratops pulls its weight.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.06 bulk tier
At $0.06, Spike-Tailed Ceratops is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard and ink, not the card. No trajectory exists that changes this; it does nothing broken, so pick up a copy for pocket change and don't think twice about it.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.