Abyssal Gorestalker
Creature — Horror
When this creature enters, each player sacrifices two creatures of their choice.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- The Lost Caverns of Ixalan
- Price
- $0.23
- EDHREC rank
- #14371
Abyssal Gorestalker enters as a 5/4 with menace and immediately devours two creatures — yours or your opponents' — to grow a third, which is a massive amount of battlefield manipulation for six mana. The cost is real: you need three creatures in play to extract full value, and if the board is empty, you're just casting a vanilla 5/4.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Abyssal Gorestalker belongs — token strategies and sacrifice synergies are everywhere in the format, and a 5/4 menace that sculpts the board on entry fits naturally in aristocrats, Golgari midrange, or any shell running expendable creatures. In 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer it's too slow and too conditional at six mana; competitive curves are tighter and a six-drop needs to end the game, not just eat two creatures. Standard could find a home for it if sacrifice payoffs are present in the same environment, but it's a fringe role-player at best. Legacy and Vintage simply don't want it.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.23 bulk tier
At $0.23, Abyssal Gorestalker is pure bulk — pick it up without thinking about the price. Bulk rares with narrow conditions rarely climb unless a new commander or combo pushes them, so treat this as a cheap role-player and nothing more.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.