Thresher Lizard
Creature — Lizard
This creature gets +1/+2 as long as you have one or fewer cards in hand.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Masters 25
- Price
- $0.03
- EDHREC rank
- #28788
Thresher Lizard is a 3/4 for three mana with no abilities — a vanilla creature that competes in formats where every slot has to do something. There is no shell where it earns a spot over a creature that trades, synergizes, or generates value.
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 |
Thresher Lizard is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legality is not the same as playability. In Pauper, where commons are the ceiling, a 3/4 for three is the closest thing to relevance it gets — but even there, efficient creatures with evasion or enters-the-battlefield effects crowd it out. In Commander, a 99-card format that demands every card contribute to a game plan, Thresher Lizard has no game plan to contribute to. Across every format, the verdict is the same: the stats are fine and the card does nothing else.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.03 bulk tier
At $0.03, Thresher Lizard sits at the floor of bulk commons — the price of a card no one is buying. That price will not move; there is no demand pressure that would ever push a vanilla creature into relevance.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.