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Tanazir Quandrix

Legendary Creature — Elder Dragon

Flying, trample
When Tanazir Quandrix enters, double the number of +1/+1 counters on target creature you control.
Whenever Tanazir Quandrix attacks, you may have the base power and toughness of other creatures you control become equal to Tanazir Quandrix's power and toughness until end of turn.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{3}{G}{U}
Color identity
GU
Rarity
mythic
Set
Strixhaven: School of Mages Promos
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#9267
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Tanazir Quandrix card art
Tanazir Quandrix resets every creature you control to match your biggest creature's power and toughness the moment it attacks — that's a board-wide pump with no mana investment beyond casting it. The cost is a six-mana dragon that does nothing until combat, which makes it dead weight in the early game but a one-card army in the late game. Pair it with Deadeye Navigator or drop it into Zimone, Infinite Analyst and the math gets out of hand fast.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Zimone, Infinite Analyst

Zimone, Infinite Analyst

42.7% of decks · synergy 0.41

Zimone, Infinite Analyst runs Tanazir Quandrix at over 42% inclusion because Zimone's engine generates massive counters on a single creature, and Tanazir snaps every other creature up to that number the turn it attacks — one combat step can swing lethal out of nowhere.

02
Primo, the Unbounded

Primo, the Unbounded

20.0% of decks · synergy 0.18

Primo, the Unbounded cares about making creatures as large as possible before copying or sacrificing them, and Tanazir Quandrix's attack trigger homogenizes the board to your fattest stat line, turning a field of modest bodies into a uniform threat Primo can exploit immediately.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Tanazir Quandrix actually lives — six mana is reasonable in a 40-life singleton format, and the attack trigger scales absurdly with counter-based strategies or any shell that already has one enormous creature. In competitive non-rotating formats like Modern and Legacy, a six-mana 4/4 without immediate board impact is too slow to see serious play; there's no realistic path to the battlefield before the game is decided. Pioneer offers slightly more breathing room but the same fundamental problem applies — Tanazir is a finisher without a reliable shell to slot into. Oathbreaker is worth a mention since it can function as a signature spell support piece in the right pairing, though its real home remains the 100-card format.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

unknown tier

Current pricing data isn't available for Tanazir Quandrix, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for a live number before buying. Given that it's a mythic with a narrow but devoted Commander audience, expect it to sit somewhere in the budget-to-mid range — worth picking up if you're building Zimone or any dedicated +1/+1 counter deck.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.