Thunder-Thrash Elder
Creature — Lizard Warrior
Devour 3 (As this creature enters, you may sacrifice any number of creatures. It enters with three times that many +1/+1 counters on it.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Planechase 2012
- Price
- $0.16
- EDHREC rank
- #23246
Thunder-Thrash Elder lands as a 1/1 and immediately scales — sacrifice three creatures and it becomes a 7/7 trampler on the spot, which is a game-ending body for three mana. The catch is that the devour trigger demands you already have a board, so it does nothing in an empty hand and everything in a token flood.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Thunder-Thrash Elder earns its keep, specifically in sacrifice and token strategies that can reliably feed the devour trigger on entry. Krenko, Mob Boss and Prossh, Skyraider of Kher both generate the disposable bodies needed to turn it into a 7/7 or larger on the spot, and at three mana the floor is low enough that the fail-case rarely hurts. In Legacy, Modern, and Vintage, Thunder-Thrash Elder competes against a much higher power ceiling — devour is too slow and too conditional against interaction-heavy environments where your token board gets dismantled before the trigger resolves. Play it in Commander; ignore it everywhere else.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.16 bulk tier
At $0.16, Thunder-Thrash Elder is deep bulk — the kind of card you pull from a box rather than buy. Price stability is essentially guaranteed at this floor; it won't climb without a reprint-driven spike or a breakout Commander list pushing demand.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.