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Formation Breaker

First printed in Tarkir: Dragonstorm (2025)

Formation Breaker

Creature — Beast

Creatures with power less than this creature's power can't block it.
As long as you control a creature with a counter on it, this creature gets +1/+2.

"The war chargers seem restless. Let them out to play."
—Ermaz, Abzan border guard

2/1

Illustrated by
Eelis Kyttanen

Formation Breaker legality

Ruling (1)

  • You compare Formation Breaker’s power to the power of any creature trying to block it only as blockers are declared. Once Formation Breaker has been legally blocked by a creature, changing the power of either creature won’t change or undo the block.

Prices

Paper price: €0.09 / $0.16 , the cheapest non-foil print (Cardmarket, and TCGplayer, otherwise Mana Pool or Card Kingdom, through MTGJSON, 10 Nov 2026).

MTGO price: 0.003 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 10 Nov 2026).

Limited On MTG Arena

Win rates in Arena drafts and sealed, retrieved from 17Lands (CC BY 4.0).

Win rates of Formation Breaker in Limited
Set GIH WR vs set IWD Games
Tarkir: Dragonstorm (TDM), Premier Draft 54.9% -0.1 +1.8 17145
Tarkir: Dragonstorm (TDM), Sealed 53.4% -3.8 -2.1 758
GIH WR
win rate of the games in which the card was in the opening hand or drawn
vs set
points above or below the average win rate of all decks in the set
IWD
improvement when drawn: GIH WR minus the win rate when the card stayed in the library
Games
games in which the card was seen