Visage of Dread // Dread Osseosaur
Artifact // Creature — Dinosaur Skeleton Horror
When this artifact enters, target opponent reveals their hand. You choose an artifact or creature card from it. That player discards that card.
Craft with two creatures 
(, Exile this artifact, Exile the two from among creatures you control and/or creature cards in your graveyard: Return this card transformed under its owner's control. Craft only as a sorcery.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- The Lost Caverns of Ixalan
- Price
- $0.17
- EDHREC rank
- #18039
Visage of Dread // Dread Osseosaur front-loads a removal spell that also stocks your graveyard, then flips into a massive dinosaur that grows on each opponent's end step by consuming those same bones. The cost is real — six mana on the back half and a setup dependency on sacrifice fodder — but the payoff is a self-scaling threat that demands an immediate answer.
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 Visage of Dread // Dread Osseosaur earns its keep: three opponents means three end steps of growth triggers, and graveyard-filling strategies that already want sacrifice outlets make the front half a free setup piece rather than a tax. In Standard and Pioneer it competes in a creature-dense midrange lane where a six-mana 5/5-plus is playable but not dominant, and the modal nature keeps it from being dead in hand. Modern and Legacy move too fast for a six-drop that needs a graveyard runway to threaten, so it sits at the fringe there. Pauper excludes it entirely.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.17 bulk tier
At $0.17, Visage of Dread // Dread Osseosaur is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not demand. Bulk rares at this price point rarely spike unless a specific deck breaks them, and nothing on the current competitive radar is hunting for this effect, so don't expect movement.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.