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
{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
common
Set
The List
Price
$0.44
EDHREC rank
#15458
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Wild Nacatl card art
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

FormatVerdict
commander
legacy
modern
pioneer
standard
vintage
pauper
oathbreaker

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.

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