Gastal Thrillseeker
Creature — Lizard Berserker
Start your engines! (If you have no speed, it starts at 1. It increases once on each of your turns when an opponent loses life. Max speed is 4.)
When this creature enters, it deals 1 damage to target opponent and you gain 1 life.
Max speed — This creature has deathtouch and haste.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BR
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Aetherdrift
- Price
- $0.20
- EDHREC rank
- #16566
Gastal Thrillseeker converts a single point of damage on any creature into a scalable damage trigger — the threat is immediate and visible the turn it enters. Gev, Scaled Scorch is the natural home, turning every ping from Gev's commander damage into a bonus Thrillseeker proc that snowballs faster than opponents can answer.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Gev, Scaled Scorch
Gev, Scaled Scorch's ability to spread one damage across multiple creatures feeds Gastal Thrillseeker repeatedly in a single attack step, turning a board-wide ping into a chain of triggers that can end the game before blockers matter.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Gastal Thrillseeker slots cleanly into any Rakdos or Jund deck built around pinging effects, and it's essentially mandatory in Gev, Scaled Scorch lists. Outside Commander, the effect is too incremental for the tempo demands of Modern or Pioneer, where a three-mana creature needs to close games rather than reward damage already dealt. Standard offers the most fertile non-Commander ground if a dedicated ping shell exists in the meta, but Gastal Thrillseeker will always be a build-around rather than a staple. Legacy and Vintage have no interest — the ceiling is too low for those formats' kill speeds.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.20 bulk tier
At $0.20, Gastal Thrillseeker sits firmly in bulk territory — easy to acquire as a four-of without a second thought. Bulk rares with narrow build-around requirements rarely climb unless a dominant commander pushes demand, so treat this as a pickup-and-forget card rather than a spec.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.