Spined Tyrranax
Creature — Dinosaur Beast
At the beginning of combat on your turn, you may pay 
. When you do, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. That creature gains trample until end of turn. (It can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Foundations Jumpstart
- Price
- $0.13
- EDHREC rank
- #21320
Spined Tyrranax puts a 5/4 with trample and poisonous 1 on the board for four mana — solid stats, marginal poison rider — but four mana is where green starts demanding creatures that swing a game on their own, and this one doesn't. Efficient enough for budget infect builds, irrelevant everywhere else.
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 |
Spined Tyrranax is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but competitive play in Legacy and Vintage has no interest in a vanilla-adjacent four-drop when infect strategies there operate at one and two mana. In Commander, it's a fringe inclusion in dedicated infect decks — ten poison counters is a high bar in a 40-life format, and Spined Tyrranax contributes exactly one counter per attack without evasion, making it one of the slower tools available for that gameplan. Oathbreaker shares Commander's inflated life totals, so the same ceiling applies.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.13 bulk tier
At $0.13, Spined Tyrranax is deep bulk — the price reflects demand, which is minimal. It won't lose value because it has almost none to lose, but there's no pressure to pick it up unless you're building a budget infect list and need bodies.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.