Taunting Arbormage
Creature — Elf Wizard
Kicker 
(You may pay an additional as you cast this spell.)
When this creature enters, if it was kicked, all creatures able to block target creature this turn do so.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Zendikar Rising
- Price
- $0.04
- EDHREC rank
- #22934
Taunting Arbormage forces all creatures your opponents control to block it when it attacks — a 1/1 that makes itself a lightning rod and clears the path for your real threats. The cost is that it dies to a stiff breeze, so it only does its job once unless you have recursion or a way to grant it indestructibility.
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 |
Taunting Arbormage is a Commander card through and through — the multiplayer board state is exactly where forced-block effects create the most chaos, and combat-centric commanders running green can use it to alpha-strike past full boards. In Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer it's outclassed by almost anything else at one mana, and the effect doesn't map well to one-on-one games where the math is rarely favorable enough to justify a 1/1 with no other text. Oathbreaker shares enough of Commander's multiplayer DNA that the Arbormage can pull the same trick, though the faster game speed shrinks its window.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.04 bulk tier
At $0.04, Taunting Arbormage sits firmly in bulk territory — the cheapest possible entry point for what it does. That price is stable because demand is narrow, but for a combat-tricks build it's essentially free inclusion.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.