Spined Basher
Creature — Zombie Beast
Morph 
(You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for 
. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Onslaught
- Price
- $0.07
- EDHREC rank
- #30741
Spined Basher is a 3/2 Zombie Beast with intimidate for three mana — evasive and passable on stats, but nothing about that rate demands a slot. Outside of dedicated Zombie tribal synergy, it's a filler creature that better options outclass at every turn.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Spined Basher sees essentially zero competitive play in any format where it's legal. In Commander, Zombie tribal is its only real home, and even there it's firmly on the bubble — intimidate provides evasion, but three mana for a 3/2 with no enters-the-battlefield effect and no recursive upside is a hard sell when the Zombie card pool runs deep. Pauper is the format most likely to give Spined Basher a look, where the commons baseline is lower and tribal synergies can matter more, but it still doesn't clear the bar for established archetypes. Legacy and Vintage are non-starters.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.07 bulk tier
At $0.07, Spined Basher is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not power. It holds no meaningful value and won't appreciate; pick it up only if a Zombie tribal deck genuinely needs the slot and you've exhausted better options.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.