Talruum Piper
Creature — Minotaur
All creatures with flying able to block this creature do so.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Visions
- Price
- $0.27
- EDHREC rank
- #29624
Talruum Piper blankets every flying creature your opponents control with a forced blocking requirement — anything with wings must block it if able, which shuts down aerial combat math and clears a path for your ground army. A 3/3 haste body for four mana is passable, but you're running it for the evasion-disruption effect, not the stats.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is the only format where Talruum Piper has a real home, and even there it's a narrow role-player slotted into decks that go wide on the ground and need a way to neutralize flyer-heavy boards. Legacy and Vintage are legal on paper but have no interest in a four-mana 3/3 with a situational ability. The effect is most relevant in pods running angels, dragons, or other flying-heavy commanders where one creature can bottleneck an entire attack step.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.27 bulk tier
At $0.27, Talruum Piper is deep bulk — you're paying almost nothing for a very specific effect. Price stability is essentially guaranteed because there's no competitive demand pulling it upward, so it stays cheap indefinitely.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.