Triumphant Chomp
Sorcery
Triumphant Chomp deals damage to target creature equal to 2 or the greatest power among Dinosaurs you control, whichever is greater.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- The Lost Caverns of Ixalan
- Price
- $0.25
- EDHREC rank
- #13187
Triumphant Chomp is a one-mana fight spell that trades your creature into any target — clean, instant-speed removal that scales with your biggest threat on board. The cost is real: you need a healthy attacker to make the trade favorable, so it blanks in board-stall situations.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Triumphant Chomp earns a slot in any green deck that consistently deploys large creatures — the one-mana ceiling makes it one of the most efficient fight spells in the format. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer, it faces steep competition from unconditional removal, and the creature-dependency makes it a liability in creature-light metas. Standard is where Triumphant Chomp is most likely to see rotation-window play, slotting into midrange and stompy shells that already want a big body in play by turn two or three. Legacy and Vintage have access to removal so broken that no fight spell makes the cut.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.25 bulk tier
At $0.25, Triumphant Chomp sits firmly in bulk territory — buy a playset for a dollar and don't think twice. Bulk fight spells rarely spike unless they land in a dominant Standard archetype, so treat this as a pickup-whenever, not a hold.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.