Spiked Baloth
Creature — Beast
Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Magic 2013
- Price
- $0.06
- EDHREC rank
- #28842
Spiked Baloth is a 4/4 with trample for five mana — a statline that was underpowered when creatures were worse and is firmly outclassed now. There is almost always a better five-drop for any deck that wants green beef.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Spiked Baloth is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legal doesn't mean playable. In Pauper it has the most theoretical room, where the card pool is shallow enough that a 4/4 trampler occasionally shows up in aggressive green shells — though even there it faces stiff competition from more efficient commons. In Commander, five mana for a vanilla-adjacent body with no enters-the-battlefield effect, no recursive value, and no combo relevance means Spiked Baloth sits firmly below the cut line in every archetype.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.06 bulk tier
At $0.06, Spiked Baloth is deep bulk — the kind of card that ends up in a shoebox, not a sleeve. The price accurately reflects demand, and there is no foreseeable pressure that would move it.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.