Zoo Escapees
Creature — Boar Rhino
When this creature leaves the battlefield, create a Mutagen token. (It's an artifact with "
, 
, Sacrifice this token: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. Activate only as a sorcery.")
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Price
- $0.09
- EDHREC rank
- #24217
Zoo Escapees puts a 3/4 body plus a 3/3 token into play for five mana — reasonable stats on paper, but five mana for a split presence with no evasion, no ETB value, and no immediate board impact is a losing proposition in any competitive context. Bulk rare for a reason.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Zoo Escapees competes against five-mana plays that either ramp, draw cards, or threaten to win the game, and it does none of those things — two vanilla-adjacent bodies don't move the needle at a four-player table. In 60-card formats, the story is the same: Modern and Pioneer have no home for a five-mana two-for-one with no enters-the-battlefield text and no synergy hooks. Pauper is the one format where bulk bodies occasionally find a niche, but Zoo Escapees is an uncommon, not a common, so it doesn't even qualify. Standard-legal doesn't help it — the card simply lacks a shell where splitting five mana across two underpowered creatures is the right move.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.09 bulk tier
At $0.09, Zoo Escapees sits firmly in bulk territory and is likely to stay there. Nothing in its design points toward a future spike — no combo relevance, no tribal tag, no unusual ability to exploit.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.