Hammerhead Tyrant
Hammerhead Tyrant: Creature - Dragon, Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {4}{U}{U}
- Mana value
- 6
- Type
- Creature - Dragon
- Colour identity
- Blue (U)
- Power / toughness
- 6/6
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)
- Released
- 2025-04-11
- Collector number
- 21
- Artist
- Xavier Ribeiro
- Commander rank
- 4,939 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
- Keywords
- Flying
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About Hammerhead Tyrant
Hammerhead Tyrant is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare blue creature from Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC), a Commander product released in April 2025. It is collector number 21 in that set, with art by Xavier Ribeiro. It costs {4}{U}{U} (four generic and two blue mana) to cast, for a mana value of 6. It is a 6/6 creature. Its colour identity is blue. It is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander and Oathbreaker. Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander is its only printing so far. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.35 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-03).
Card text
Flying
Whenever you cast a spell, return up to one target nonland permanent an opponent controls with mana value less than or equal to that spell's mana value to its owner's hand.
Without subjects, but a tyrant nonetheless.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.35 (as of 2026-11-03).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Hammerhead Tyrant by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Legacy | Legal |
|---|---|
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
Other printings of Hammerhead Tyrant
The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC) #61 | Rare | 2025 |
Official rulings
Two official rulings apply to Hammerhead Tyrant, newest first.
- If a spell has {X} in its mana cost, use the value of X chosen as it was cast to determine that spell’s mana value.
- If a permanent has {X} in its mana cost, X is 0 for the purpose of determining its mana value.
Similar cards
Other creature cards with a blue colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.
In these precons
Hammerhead Tyrant is in the decklist of these preconstructed Commander decks.
- Temur Roar (TDC), led by Eshki, Temur's Roar