Thicket Crasher
Creature — Elemental Rhino
Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)
Other Elementals you control have trample.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Core Set 2020
- Price
- $0.20
- EDHREC rank
- #12821
Thicket Crasher gives every Elemental you control trample the moment it lands — that's a board-wide keyword on a 4/3 body for four mana. In Omnath, Locus of the Roil and similar Elemental tribal shells, this is the difference between a lethal swing and a chump-blocked standstill.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Omnath, Locus of the Roil
Omnath, Locus of the Roil runs Thicket Crasher because every Elemental token and payoff it generates needs a way through blockers — trample on the whole tribe turns a wide board into a closing engine.
Omnath, Locus of Rage
Omnath, Locus of Rage creates a constant stream of 5/5 Elemental tokens that die into Lightning Bolts, and Thicket Crasher makes sure those 5/5s aren't stopped by a 1/1 — the trample grant is the last piece that makes combat damage math punishing for opponents.
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 |
Thicket Crasher is a Commander card — full stop. Outside of dedicated Elemental tribal builds, a four-mana 4/3 that grants trample only to its own creature type has no home in competitive formats where Modern and Legacy demand universal impact for that slot. Pauper could theoretically support it in an Elemental synergy shell, but the payoffs there are thin enough that it rarely makes the cut. In Commander, it earns its seat in any Elemental-heavy deck that needs to push through a stalled board.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.20 bulk tier
At $0.20, Thicket Crasher is deep bulk — pick it up without thinking twice. Bulk tribal enablers at this price rarely spike unless the tribe gets a high-profile commander pushed in a precon, so don't expect movement, but there's no reason not to own a copy.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.