Thrashing Frontliner
Creature — Phyrexian Lizard
Trample
Whenever this creature attacks a battle, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- March of the Machine
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #27266
Thrashing Frontliner swings in, deals combat damage, and converts that damage into card draw — a repeatable engine on a creature that rewards aggression. The cost is staying alive long enough to attack, which means it earns its slot in decks that protect their threats or push damage through reliably.
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 |
In Commander, Thrashing Frontliner is a low-ask card-advantage engine for aggressive creature decks that would otherwise run out of gas in a four-player game. In Pauper, where common-slot card draw is scarce and every repeated draw trigger matters, it fits natively into red or multicolor beatdown shells. Modern and Legacy have faster, more redundant options that make Thrashing Frontliner too fragile to compete, but Pioneer's shallower card pool gives it occasional fringe consideration in go-wide aggro. Across all formats, the fundamental ask is the same: connect with combat damage, and the card replaces itself.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Thrashing Frontliner sits firmly in bulk territory — the kind of card you pick up in a trade binder filler pile without a second thought. Bulk rares and commons with niche appeal rarely climb from this floor unless a format-defining shell adopts them, so treat it as a free inclusion rather than a spec.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.