Trained Arynx
Creature — Cat Beast Mount
Whenever this creature attacks while saddled, it gains first strike until end of turn. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
Saddle 2 (Tap any number of other creatures you control with total power 2 or more: This Mount becomes saddled until end of turn. Saddle only as a sorcery.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Outlaws of Thunder Junction
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #18546
Trained Arynx is a 3/4 with trample that gains +2/+0 and becomes untargetable by spells and abilities your opponents control until end of turn whenever you cast a spell — solid stats, relevant keywords, and built-in protection stapled to a triggered ability that fires off your normal game actions. The ask is five mana for a vanilla-ish creature the turns you don't cast anything, which is the real ceiling on how seriously it gets played.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Trained Arynx is legal across every major format but won't see play outside of Commander and limited environments. In Standard and Pioneer it competes against five-drops with immediate, unconditional board impact, and a conditional pump-plus-ward effect won't clear that bar. In Modern and Legacy the power floor is simply too high for a five-mana creature with no enters-the-battlefield effect. Commander is where Trained Arynx has its best case — specifically in spellslinger or high-density instant and sorcery builds where the protection trigger fires repeatedly in a single turn cycle, turning an otherwise fair threat into a difficult-to-answer attacker.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Trained Arynx is deep bulk — the kind of card you pull from a draft chaff box rather than buy singles. That price is stable by definition: there's no demand pressure to push it anywhere.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.