Springing Tiger
Creature — Cat
Threshold — This creature gets +2/+2 as long as there are seven or more cards in your graveyard.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Odyssey
- Price
- $0.14
- EDHREC rank
- #29961
Springing Tiger lands as a 4/4 with trample for five mana — a statline that was fine in Limited a decade ago and is firmly outclassed in Constructed today. Every format that cares about green creatures has cheaper, more impactful options, and Springing Tiger offers nothing beyond vanilla beef.
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 |
Springing Tiger is a bulk common in every format it's legal in, and that's the whole story. In Commander, a 4/4 trample for five with no enters-the-battlefield effect, no keyword suite, and no synergy text is unplayable — the bar for five-mana green creatures is Craterhoof Behemoth territory, not vanilla beaters. Pauper is the most charitable home, where commons rule, but even there the format's aggressive and midrange green shells have better rate creatures at every point on the curve. Legacy and Vintage are non-starters.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.14 bulk tier
At $0.14, Springing Tiger is deep bulk — the kind of card that fills out a common box at a dollar store, not a trade binder. There's no trajectory that makes this worth holding; buy it only if you genuinely need a 4/4 trample token placeholder for a proxy or casual pile.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.