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Ganax, Astral Hunter

Legendary Creature — Dragon

Flying
Whenever Ganax or another Dragon you control enters, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
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CMC
5
Mana cost
{4}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate
Price
$0.39
EDHREC rank
#1504
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Ganax, Astral Hunter card art
Ganax, Astral Hunter turns every Dragon ETB into a Treasure token, which means a board of Dragons pays for itself — and with Aggravated Assault in play, those Treasures fund additional combat steps the same turn they're made. The cost is a five-mana 4/4 with no built-in protection, so it needs a Dragon-heavy shell to justify the slot; paired with Rivaz of the Claw, that shell essentially builds itself.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Rivaz of the Claw

Rivaz of the Claw

72.5% of decks · synergy 0.71

Rivaz of the Claw is the natural home — it recurs Dragons from the graveyard on each end step, and every one of those recursive ETBs hands Ganax, Astral Hunter a fresh Treasure to spend on the next Dragon.

02
Lathliss, Dragon Queen

Lathliss, Dragon Queen

72.7% of decks · synergy 0.69

Lathliss, Dragon Queen creates additional Dragon tokens whenever a nontoken Dragon enters, so each cast triggers Ganax, Astral Hunter twice — once for the cast and once for the free token — compounding Treasure production fast.

03
Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm

Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm

76.4% of decks · synergy 0.66

Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm copies every nontoken Dragon that enters, doubling the ETB triggers Ganax, Astral Hunter sees and effectively doubling the Treasure output each turn.

04
Vrondiss, Rage of Ancients

Vrondiss, Rage of Ancients

46.9% of decks · synergy 0.45

Vrondiss, Rage of Ancients generates a stream of Dragon Spirit tokens whenever it takes damage, each one triggering Ganax, Astral Hunter and converting board pressure directly into mana.

05
Ureni of the Unwritten

Ureni of the Unwritten

46.9% of decks · synergy 0.37

Ureni of the Unwritten cheats Dragons into play from the top of the library, and each free-cast Dragon hands Ganax, Astral Hunter a Treasure without the mana investment — accelerating the deck's next threat with money it didn't spend.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Ganax, Astral Hunter does all its real work — Dragon tribal is one of the most-built archetypes in the format, and a repeatable Treasure-on-ETB effect scales harder over a long multiplayer game than it ever could in a duel. Legacy and Vintage are legal but irrelevant; competitive Dragon synergies don't exist at those power levels in ways that justify a five-mana 4/4 with no immediate board impact. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander 60-card-adjacent format where it's legal, and a Dragon-centric Oathbreaker shell could use the Treasure acceleration, though the smaller game size blunts the cumulative advantage.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.39 bulk tier

At $0.39, Ganax, Astral Hunter is deep bulk — a near-free inclusion in any Dragon deck that wants the Treasure engine. Bulk rares with consistent tribal demand tend to hold their floor, so there's no meaningful downside risk to picking one up now.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.