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Wild Dogs

Creature — Dog

At the beginning of your upkeep, if a player has more life than each other player, the player with the most life gains control of this creature.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

CMC
1
Mana cost
{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
common
Set
World Championship Decks 1999
Price
$0.39
EDHREC rank
#24484
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Wild Dogs card art
Wild Dogs is a one-mana 2/1 with a minor upside clause — cycling for one green — that exists almost entirely to feed graveyard-recursive engines like Abandoned Sarcophagus. Outside of that niche, it's a vanishingly small body with no relevant abilities, and it has no business in a deck that isn't actively exploiting the graveyard.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper legal
oathbreaker legal

Wild Dogs is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but its home is narrow in every one of them. In Commander, Wild Dogs surfaces in cycling or graveyard-value decks that need cheap, recurring fodder — think Anikthea or Golgari reanimator shells that cycle early and recur late. In Pauper it's technically playable but outclassed by nearly every other one-drop green creature with a body that actually matters. Legacy and Vintage have no interest in a 2/1 with a conditional cycling ability.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.39 bulk tier

At $0.39, Wild Dogs is deep bulk — the kind of card you pick out of a dollar box without checking the price. Expect it to stay there; demand is too narrow and supply too plentiful for this to move.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.