Trumpeting Carnosaur
Creature — Dinosaur
Trample
When this creature enters, discover 5.
, Discard this card: It deals 3 damage to target creature or planeswalker.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- The Lost Caverns of Ixalan
- Price
- $2.68
- EDHREC rank
- #1615
Trumpeting Carnosaur lands as a 7/6 trample that kills something immediately — the discover 5 is upside on top of a body that already demands an answer. At five mana, that rate is real enough that Radha, Heir to Keld lists run it at over 60% inclusion, and the number speaks for itself.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Radha, Heir to Keld
Radha, Heir to Keld generates mana on attacks, and Trumpeting Carnosaur's aggressive stats slot directly into that combat-first plan while the discover trigger free-rolls into more threats or gas.
Tannuk, Steadfast Second
Tannuk, Steadfast Second wants large bodies with built-in value, and Trumpeting Carnosaur delivers a 7/6 trample plus a discover 5 trigger that can chain into another threat immediately.
Alena, Kessig Trapper // Gilanra, Caller of Wirewood
Alena, Kessig Trapper // Gilanra, Caller of Wirewood cares about high-power creatures entering play, and Trumpeting Carnosaur's 7 power means Alena produces serious mana the turn it arrives while discover keeps the threat density high.
Ruby, Daring Tracker
Ruby, Daring Tracker rewards running big creatures with relevant keywords, and Trumpeting Carnosaur's trample plus immediate removal effect makes it one of the cleaner five-drops in that shell.
Pantlaza, Sun-Favored
Pantlaza, Sun-Favored triggers discover off every Dinosaur entering play, which means Trumpeting Carnosaur's own discover 5 stacks on top of Pantlaza's trigger for a double cascade of free spells the moment it hits the battlefield.
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 |
Commander is where Trumpeting Carnosaur does its best work — a 7/6 trample that answers a creature and digs five cards deep is exactly the kind of efficient, self-contained threat that 100-card singleton decks want at the five-mana slot. In Modern and Pioneer it's legal but faces a field where five mana is a significant ask and the discover payoff is less reliable without tribal support, so it mostly stays on the bench. Legacy and Vintage have access to so much broken acceleration that Trumpeting Carnosaur is never the thing you want to be doing. Standard and Oathbreaker are the only non-Commander 60-card environments where it sees any real play, and that's driven by limited card pools and Dinosaur synergies rather than raw power.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$2.68 cheap tier
At $2.68, Trumpeting Carnosaur sits in comfortable bulk-rare territory — cheap enough to slot into any Commander deck without hesitation, and its inclusion across tens of thousands of decks suggests demand is steady enough to keep it from dropping further.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Radha, Heir to Keld
- Tannuk, Steadfast Second
- Alena, Kessig Trapper // Gilanra, Caller of Wirewood
- Ruby, Daring Tracker
- Pantlaza, Sun-Favored
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.