Gaea's Avenger
Creature — Treefolk
Gaea's Avenger's power and toughness are each equal to 1 plus the number of artifacts your opponents control.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Antiquities
- Price
- $66.52
- EDHREC rank
- #25154
Gaea's Avenger enters as a 1/1 for 1GG but grows by +1/+1 for each artifact your opponents control — in artifact-heavy metas, it routinely hits the board as a 4/4 or larger on turn three. It's a niche card that earns its slot when your pod is full of Myr Battlespheres and Sol Rings, and does almost nothing when it isn't.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Gaea's Avenger is a Commander card through and through — its power scales directly off how many opponents you have and what they're running, and a four-player table stacked with artifact ramp is exactly the environment where it punishes hardest. In Legacy and Vintage, where it's technically legal, a 1/1 for three mana with a conditional upside has never been competitively relevant and never will be — those formats move too fast for a creature that needs opponents to do something first. Oathbreaker shares Commander's multiplayer dynamics, so the same logic applies: the more artifact-dense the meta, the better Gaea's Avenger looks.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
Gaea's Avenger's closest functional analog is Mossbridge Troll territory conceptually, but for pure "punish artifact players" coverage, Collector Ouphe and Stony Silence do more work at a fraction of the cost — they don't grow into a threat, but they actively shut off the artifacts rather than just counting them. If you want a creature that scales with opponents' permanents on a budget, Kogla, the Titan Ape or a simple Viridian Shaman trades direct removal for the same flavor of green-creature-hates-artifacts at well under $5.
Price Context
Current price
$66.52 premium tier
At $66.52, Gaea's Avenger sits firmly in premium territory driven almost entirely by scarcity — it's an old card with minimal reprints, not a staple with widespread demand. The price reflects collectibility more than playability, and given how meta-dependent the card is, that valuation is hard to justify for anyone building to win rather than to collect.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.