Triassic Egg
Artifact
, 
: Put a hatchling counter on this artifact.
Sacrifice this artifact: Choose one. Activate only if there are two or more hatchling counters on this artifact.
• You may put a creature card from your hand onto the battlefield.
• Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Legends
- Price
- $10.12
- EDHREC rank
- #25413
Triassic Egg cheats a creature directly onto the battlefield — no mana cost paid — but demands three charge counters first, which means three separate untap steps before you see the payoff. The setup cost is real, and in any format faster than Commander it's simply too slow to justify a deck slot.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Triassic Egg is a Commander card through and through — the three-turn setup is tolerable in a 40-life multiplayer game where opponents are busy dealing with each other, and the payoff of landing a Blightsteel Colossus or Emrakul for free is worth the wait. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but irrelevant; both formats end before the egg hatches, and dedicated reanimation like Reanimate or Entomb does the same job on turn one. Oathbreaker is the one other format where it occasionally appears, specifically in proliferate builds that can rush counters, but the 20-life clock makes the three-turn delay risky even there.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
Animate Dead and Dance of the Dead each cost under $2 and reanimate a creature from any graveyard at instant or sorcery speed — no counters, no waiting, just a creature on board. Triassic Egg has the edge in artifact-tribal synergy and in reanimating from hand rather than graveyard, but if the goal is simply cheating mana costs, either enchantment does it faster and cheaper.
Price Context
Current price
$10.12 mid tier
At $10.12, Triassic Egg sits in mid-tier pricing driven almost entirely by nostalgia and Old School demand rather than competitive play. It holds value because the supply is genuinely old and limited, but don't buy it expecting Commander staple liquidity — it's a collector's piece that occasionally shows up in the right build.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.