Tyranid Harridan
Creature — Tyranid
Flying, ward 
Shrieking Gargoyles — Whenever this creature or another Tyranid you control deals combat damage to a player, create a 1/1 blue Tyranid Gargoyle creature token with flying.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GU
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Warhammer 40,000 Commander
- Price
- $0.42
- EDHREC rank
- #14338
Tyranid Harridan lands as a 7/5 flying trample that straps a Ravenous counter onto every other Tyranid creature token you make — that's a permanent stat-pump engine stapled to a body that closes games from the air. The cost is seven mana and a narrow tribal requirement, but inside The Swarmlord shells that condition is trivially met.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
The Swarmlord
The Swarmlord generates Tyranid tokens on every successful attack, and Tyranid Harridan turns each of those tokens into a Ravenous trigger — meaning the board snowballs in stats every combat step, not just in numbers.
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 |
Tyranid Harridan is a Commander card through and through — seven mana is a real cost in Legacy and Vintage, where the tribal payoff finds zero support and faster threats dominate. In Commander, the Tyranid creature type is dense enough in dedicated lists that Harridan's counter-distribution becomes a genuine engine rather than a one-off bonus. Outside of The Swarmlord and fringe Tyranid builds, it has no natural home, so its playability is almost entirely bracket-and-tribal-dependent. Don't slot it into a generic green stompy list expecting results.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.42 bulk tier
At $0.42, Tyranid Harridan is bulk, and that price reflects its narrow tribal gate — demand is real but concentrated. It holds value as long as The Swarmlord remains a popular commander; if the archetype fades, so does the floor.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.