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Thrashing Wumpus

Creature — Beast

{B}: This creature deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{3}{B}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
rare
Set
Mercadian Masques
Price
$0.83
EDHREC rank
#19781
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Thrashing Wumpus is a repeatable board-wide ping that costs you life to operate — the whole game is whether you can profit off that symmetry before opponents do. Pair it with Crystalline Crawler or any damage-to-resource engine and the activation stops being a cost and starts being a win condition.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Thrashing Wumpus is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, and that's where its entire competitive life exists. In Commander it finds the most traction, slotting into black decks that want incremental damage — aristocrats, lifegain payoffs, or commanders that convert opponents' life loss into resources. Legacy and Vintage have no interest; five mana for a symmetrical effect is nowhere near the power threshold those formats demand. Oathbreaker can leverage Thrashing Wumpus in a tighter, faster context where the ping closes games quicker, but Commander is the clear home.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.83 bulk tier

At $0.83, Thrashing Wumpus sits in bulk territory — cheap enough to include speculatively, low enough that it won't hold or gain value over time. Pick it up for the synergy, not the price tag.

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