Viashino Shanktail
Creature — Lizard Warrior
First strike
Bloodrush — 
, Discard this card: Target attacking creature gets +3/+1 and gains first strike until end of turn.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Gatecrash
- Price
- $0.04
- EDHREC rank
- #25650
Viashino Shanktail is a four-mana 3/1 first striker that deals 1 damage to any target when it enters and again when it attacks — individually minor effects that don't justify the cost in competitive play. It's outclassed at every point on the curve by creatures that either hit harder, survive longer, or do something more impactful on entry.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Viashino Shanktail is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it sees essentially no play in any of them. In competitive 60-card formats, a 3/1 for four that pings for 1 on entry and on attack is nowhere near the rate those formats demand. Commander is the most charitable home — token-doubling or enter-the-battlefield-trigger engines could theoretically stack the pings — but there are far more efficient creatures doing the same job, and a 3/1 body folds to almost any blocker.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.04 bulk tier
At $0.04, Viashino Shanktail is deep bulk — the kind of card that fills a draft common slot and rarely leaves the bulk bin. There's no demand driver that would move this price in either direction.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.