Steadfast Armasaur
Creature — Dinosaur
Vigilance
, 
: This creature deals damage equal to its toughness to target creature blocking or blocked by it.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Ixalan
- Price
- $0.16
- EDHREC rank
- #26315
Steadfast Armasaur puts a 5/5 body with vigilance and trample on the board for four mana, which is competitive rate on its own. The real cost is that it does nothing beyond being a large dinosaur — no enters-the-battlefield trigger, no combat ability, no synergy hook.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Steadfast Armasaur is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but competitive play in any of those formats is not where this card lives. In Commander it's a passable body in Dinosaur tribal shells under Gishath, Sun's Avatar or Zacama, Primal Calamity, where tribal synergies justify running vanilla-adjacent creatures. Everywhere else, four mana for a 5/5 with keywords is outclassed by creatures that also advance a game plan.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.16 bulk tier
At $0.16, Steadfast Armasaur is deep bulk — the kind of card you pull from a box rather than order. That price won't move; there's no competitive demand and no casual chase factor to push it up.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.