Stegron the Dinosaur Man
Legendary Creature — Dinosaur Villain
Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
Dinosaur Formula — 
, Discard this card: Until end of turn, target creature you control gets +3/+1 and becomes a Dinosaur in addition to its other types.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Through the Omenpaths
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #18106
Stegron the Dinosaur Man animates your artifact creatures and turns them into attacking Dinosaurs — a surprisingly aggressive payoff stapled onto a five-mana legendary body. The cost is real: five mana for a 4/4 with no immediate board impact means it needs a prepared board to do anything.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Stegron the Dinosaur Man occupies a narrow niche — it wants a deck built around either Dinosaurs or artifact creatures, and even then it competes with more impactful five-drops. Outside Commander, it sees essentially no competitive play across Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, or Standard; the cost-to-effect ratio doesn't hold up in faster formats where five mana needs to close games or generate immediate card advantage. Pauper is irrelevant given its non-common rarity. This is a Commander-only card in practice, and even there it's a build-around rather than a staple.
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Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data for Stegron the Dinosaur Man isn't available in the current market feed, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the latest. Given its narrow application as a tribal/artifact crossover build-around with no competitive presence, don't expect it to carry a premium.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.