Is Blisterspit Gremlin good in Commander?

Blisterspit Gremlin

Creature — Gremlin

, : This creature deals 1 damage to each opponent.
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, untap this creature.

CMC: 1
Mana cost
Color identity: R
Rarity: common
Set: Jumpstart 2022
Price: $0.09
EDHREC rank: #9011

Blisterspit Gremlin converts any artifact tap — including Sol Ring on turn one — into a repeatable one-damage ping, and that damage hits each opponent in a four-player pod. Under Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might, that one damage becomes five, turning a cheap throwaway creature into a consistent clock that fires every time you tap a mana rock.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might

35.0% of decks · synergy 0.33

Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might replaces every non-combat source's 1-damage ping with 5, so Blisterspit Gremlin's tap ability goes from negligible to lethal across a long game — 35% of Axonil decks run it for exactly this reason.

Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph

13.4% of decks · synergy 0.12

Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph triggers whenever any source deals exactly 1 damage to a creature or player, and Blisterspit Gremlin's ability fires that trigger on demand, letting you chain chip damage into board control.

Torbran, Thane of Red Fell

11.6% of decks · synergy 0.10

Torbran, Thane of Red Fell adds 2 to every red source's damage, bumping Blisterspit Gremlin's ping to 3 per artifact tap and making the incremental drain matter much earlier.

Tor Wauki the Younger

10.2% of decks · synergy 0.10

Tor Wauki the Younger deals 2 damage whenever you cast an instant or sorcery, and Blisterspit Gremlin slots into the supporting artifact infrastructure that keeps that engine fed while contributing its own stream of pings.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

Format	Verdict
commander	legal
legacy	legal
modern	legal
pioneer	legal
standard	not legal
vintage	legal
pauper	legal
oathbreaker	legal

Blisterspit Gremlin is a Commander card — full stop. In 60-card formats like Modern, Pioneer, and even Pauper, a 1/3 that pings for 1 at the cost of tapping an artifact is too slow and too conditional to earn a slot over purpose-built burn or combo pieces. Legacy and Vintage have no use for it either; the effect simply doesn't scale to the speed of those formats. In Commander, the calculus flips: you have artifact ramp in every game, four opponents to ping, and commanders like Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might that multiply the damage into something threatening.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

92 decks

Blisterspit GremlinSol Ring Retraction Helix

Infinite colorless mana; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite storm count

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Price Context

Current price

$0.09 bulk tier

At $0.09, Blisterspit Gremlin is deep bulk — you're pulling it from a commons box or grabbing a playset for pocket change. Bulk rares with narrow homes occasionally tick up, but this is a common with a specific use case, so no meaningful price movement is coming.

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Updated 2026-05-30. Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.