Gaea's Courser
Creature — Centaur Soldier
Whenever this creature attacks, if there are three or more creature cards in your graveyard, draw a card.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- The Brothers' War
- Price
- $0.04
- EDHREC rank
- #23902
Gaea's Courser puts a land from your hand onto the battlefield whenever it attacks, turning every combat step into a ramp trigger on a 3/3 body for three mana. It's a solid mid-range value piece in any green deck that expects to hold lands in hand past turn three.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Gaea's Courser earns its slot — green decks frequently hold surplus lands from draw engines, and converting those into free land drops while swinging is exactly the kind of incremental advantage that compounds over a long game. In Modern and Pioneer, a 3/3 for three that requires you to attack to ramp is too slow against the format's tempo demands, and dedicated ramp decks have strictly better options. Legacy and Vintage are non-starters for the same reason; the power ceiling of those formats makes a combat-dependent land-dropper irrelevant. Oathbreaker mirrors the Commander read — legal and playable in green landfall or big-mana builds that can actually leverage the trigger.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.04 bulk tier
At $0.04, Gaea's Courser is deep bulk — you're paying almost nothing for a card that does meaningful work in the right shell. Bulk rare pricing is stable by definition; there's no value concern here, just slot competition.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.