Wild Nacatl
Creature — Cat Warrior
This creature gets +1/+1 as long as you control a Mountain.
This creature gets +1/+1 as long as you control a Plains.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $0.44
- EDHREC rank
- #15458
Wild Nacatl is a one-mana 3/3 in any deck that can satisfy its land conditions — that's a rate that defines aggressive formats. The catch is the color requirement: you need Plains, Mountain, and Forest on the battlefield, which means it earns its slot only in three-color Naya shells.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Wild Nacatl is a Modern and Legacy staple in Zoo strategies precisely because hitting three basic land types by turn two is trivial in fetch-shock mana bases, turning it into the most efficient one-drop beatdown creature available at common rarity. In Pauper it's similarly dominant — the format has no access to fetch lands, but Naya aggro still runs it as a finisher that demands an answer. Commander is where Wild Nacatl falls off hardest: a 3/3 for one is unimpressive at a 100-card table where board states scale fast, and the three-color land condition is easy to meet but the payoff doesn't justify a slot when your deck isn't built around early aggression. Vintage can run it but rarely does — the format's speed makes one-mana 3/3s look small.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.44 bulk tier
At $0.44, Wild Nacatl is bulk despite being a format staple in Modern and Legacy Zoo — high reprint availability keeps it permanently cheap. It's a safe pickup at this price; nothing about its demand profile suggests it climbs, but it won't get cheaper either.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.