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Wrathful Raptors

Creature — Dinosaur

Trample
Whenever a Dinosaur you control is dealt damage, it deals that much damage to any target that isn't a Dinosaur.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{4}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
rare
Set
The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander
Price
$5.44
EDHREC rank
#2612
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Wrathful Raptors card art
Wrathful Raptors turns every enrage trigger into a removal engine, and in a Dinosaur deck that's already swinging with Apex Altisaur, that means opponents lose creatures just from your normal attacks. Pantlaza, Sun-Favored makes the case even stronger — discover chains mean multiple Dinosaurs entering and pinging each other, and Wrathful Raptors converts each of those pings into damage pointed at anything on the board.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Pantlaza, Sun-Favored

Pantlaza, Sun-Favored

77.9% of decks · synergy 0.66

Pantlaza, Sun-Favored's discover triggers flood the board with Dinosaurs that deal damage to each other on entry, and Wrathful Raptors redirects every one of those enrage pings into a removal spell — it's the card that makes the engine lethal rather than just explosive.

02
Owen Grady, Raptor TrainerBlue, Loyal Raptor

Owen Grady, Raptor Trainer // Blue, Loyal Raptor

64.8% of decks · synergy 0.64

Owen Grady, Raptor Trainer // Blue, Loyal Raptor cares about getting Raptors into combat and keeping them alive, and Wrathful Raptors rewards the inevitable trade-off damage those Raptors take by punishing blockers and planeswalkers simultaneously.

03
Wayta, Trainer Prodigy

Wayta, Trainer Prodigy

74.3% of decks · synergy 0.63

Wayta, Trainer Prodigy proactively deals 1 damage to your own creatures to trigger enrage, and Wrathful Raptors is the direct payoff — every activation becomes a targeted 1-damage removal spell on top of whatever enrage ability the creature already has.

05
Gishath, Sun's Avatar

Gishath, Sun's Avatar

45.5% of decks · synergy 0.34

Gishath, Sun's Avatar puts a parade of Dinosaurs into play off combat damage, and Wrathful Raptors means the inevitable blocking and chip damage those creatures take on subsequent turns converts into pressure rather than pure attrition.

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 not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Wrathful Raptors lives — the multiplayer board state gives it three opponents' worth of targets, and Dinosaur tribal synergies are deep enough that the enrage engine is consistently online. Legacy and Vintage permit it, but a six-mana enchantment with no immediate board impact has no realistic home in either format. Oathbreaker is the only other sanctioned format where it's legal and plausibly castable, though the 20-life starting total means the game ends before enrage value fully accumulates. Wrathful Raptors is, in practice, a Commander card.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

Ranging Raptors and Ripjaw Raptor are the closest budget stand-ins — both trigger off the same enrage mechanic and cost well under a dollar each, though they replace individual utility rather than the board-wide damage redirection Wrathful Raptors provides. If the goal is pure enrage redundancy on a budget, those two cover the gap; if the goal is turning every ping into a removal effect, there's no real substitute in the tribe.

Price Context

Current price

$5.44 mid tier

At $5.44, Wrathful Raptors sits in mid-tier pricing — expensive enough to feel like a deliberate include, cheap enough that it belongs in any Dinosaur build that runs enrage synergies. It's a role-player in a tribal niche, so the price tracks demand from a specific archetype rather than broad cross-format play, which keeps it stable but unlikely to spike.

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