Sun-Collared Raptor
Creature — Dinosaur
Trample
: This creature gets +3/+0 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Rivals of Ixalan
- Price
- $0.11
- EDHREC rank
- #23619
Sun-Collared Raptor is a 2/1 for one red that gains trample and gets +3/+0 until end of turn whenever you tap a basic Mountain — a repeatable, no-mana-cost pump that turns it into a 5/1 trample threat every turn you're hitting land drops. The cost is that it depends entirely on untapped basic Mountains, making it dead weight in non-mono-red or multicolor builds.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Sun-Collared Raptor is legal in Commander, Modern, Pioneer, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but its home is narrow: mono-red aggressive shells that run a high basic Mountain count. In Pauper it's the most credible fit — mono-red aggro there routinely runs 16–18 basic Mountains, so the pump triggers consistently and a 5/1 trample on turn two can close games fast. In Modern and Pioneer, fetchlands and dual lands gut the trigger reliability, so Sun-Collared Raptor mostly sits behind better one-drops. In Commander, it needs a dedicated mono-red build to do anything — in a 100-card singleton format where the game goes long, a 2/1 that needs basic Mountains to be relevant is too fragile unless you're leaning hard into a voltron or land-matters strategy.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.11 bulk tier
At $0.11, Sun-Collared Raptor is deep bulk — you're paying almost nothing for a card with a tight use case. That price won't move; it's a common with a narrow home, so pick it up freely for Pauper mono-red lists and don't expect any ceiling.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.