Thorned Moloch
Creature — Lizard
Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
This creature has first strike as long as it's attacking.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Hour of Devastation
- Price
- $0.10
- EDHREC rank
- #24690
Thorned Moloch is a two-mana 1/1 with reach, vigilance, and ward — but only if you control a Desert, which is the entire condition the card lives or dies on. Meet that condition and you have a surprisingly resilient early blocker; miss it and you have an unplayable vanilla 1/1.
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 |
Thorned Moloch is a Desert payoff, which means it only earns its slot in decks deliberately built around that land type. In Commander, that points squarely at Desert-tribal shells — Hazezon, Shaper of Sand and similar commanders that incentivize stacking Desert count. In Pauper, the ward and reach package on a two-drop is genuinely taxing for an aggro opponent to navigate, and Desert support at common is real enough to make it a fringe consideration. Everywhere else — Modern, Pioneer, Legacy — Thorned Moloch is too conditional and too small to matter.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.10 bulk tier
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.