Yavimaya Ants
Creature — Insect
Trample, haste
Cumulative upkeep 
(At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Hobby Japan Promos
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #27747
Yavimaya Ants lands as a 4/4 trample haste for four mana — legitimately above-rate — then demands you pay two green every upkeep or sacrifice it, punishing any stumble in mana. The ceiling is real but the echo cost makes it unreliable enough that most green decks have better options without the strings attached.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Yavimaya Ants is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but sees essentially no competitive play in any of them. In Commander, the cumulative upkeep pressure is a genuine liability across a long game — you're either devoting green mana every turn or watching a four-drop disappear, and most green creature strategies would rather just run something with a cleaner statline. Legacy and Vintage have access to the full card pool, which means Yavimaya Ants is simply outclassed before it hits the table. Oathbreaker's faster pace makes the upkeep cost even harder to sustain.
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Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data for Yavimaya Ants isn't currently available, but as a casual-only creature with no competitive demand, copies typically surface in bulk bins or low-cost singles listings. It's not a card worth tracking down at a premium — if you want it, a bulk buy or trade binder is the right place to find it.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.