Stampeding Wildebeests
Creature — Antelope Beast
Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, return a green creature you control to its owner's hand.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Duel Decks: Garruk vs. Liliana
- Price
- $0.22
- EDHREC rank
- #23944
Stampeding Wildebeests puts a 3/3 trample body on the board that swings every turn — the catch is a mandatory upkeep bounce that returns one of your green creatures to hand. In dedicated bounce-matters or enters-the-battlefield shells, that drawback flips into a feature; outside of them, Sandsteppe Mastodon is a reasonable comparison point for sheer stats, but the Wildebeests demands a deck built around the rhythm.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Stampeding Wildebeests is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, though it sees virtually no competitive play in the older singleton-blind formats where the self-bounce is pure downside against faster threats. Commander is its natural home, specifically in green decks that want repeated ETB triggers — Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait or Korvold, Fae-Cursed King style engines treat the upkeep bounce as free value rather than a tax. In Oathbreaker the same logic applies at a smaller table scale, but the card's ceiling is lower without the redundancy a 99-card deck provides.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Sandsteppe MastodonStampeding WildebeestsSage of Hours
Infinite turns; Lock
View on Commander Spellbook ↗Price Context
Current price
$0.22 bulk tier
At $0.22, Stampeding Wildebeests is firmly bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not scarcity. It's unlikely to appreciate unless a high-profile ETB commander pushes demand, so pick it up for the effect, not as a hold.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Sandsteppe Mastodon
- Sage of Hours
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.