Dormant Gomazoa
Creature — Jellyfish
Flying
This creature enters tapped.
This creature doesn't untap during your untap step.
Whenever you become the target of a spell, you may untap this creature.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Rise of the Eldrazi
- Price
- $0.30
- EDHREC rank
- #27413
Dormant Gomazoa lands as a 3/5 flying defender that taps three target permanents on entry — a legitimate tempo swing for three mana. The cost is real: it can't attack, and you're keeping it alive to hold the board, not close games.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Dormant Gomazoa is a niche include — the tapping effect slows one opponent meaningfully but dilutes against three, so it earns its slot in dedicated defender builds or hard-control shells that need to stall for combo. In Legacy and Vintage, it doesn't compete; three mana for a creature that can't attack is several tiers below the format's threat threshold, and the tap effect doesn't interact with anything broken enough to matter. Modern has efficient interactive creatures at every point on the curve that render a passive 3/5 redundant. Dormant Gomazoa is functionally a Commander-only card.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.30 bulk tier
At $0.30, Dormant Gomazoa is deep bulk — low demand, low reprint risk, no trajectory up. Pick it up if you want it; it will never cost more than a coffee.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.