Gathan Raiders
Creature — Human Warrior
Hellbent — This creature gets +2/+2 as long as you have no cards in hand.
Morph—Discard a card. (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for 
. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $0.03
- EDHREC rank
- #28780
Gathan Raiders is a 5/5 for five that asks you to pitch a card from hand — a real cost, but one that becomes negligible in any deck that wants cards in the graveyard. Outside of discard-matters or hellbent builds, the body doesn't justify the slot.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Gathan Raiders finds a home in Rakdos or Mardu discard-value shells where pitching a card to hellbent triggers are already part of the game plan — think Syr Konrad, the Grim or Chainer, Nightmare Adept strategies that reward filling the yard. In Pauper, a 5/5 at common is legitimately large, but the format's aggressive decks rarely want to trade card advantage for a vanilla body at five mana. Legacy and Vintage have no interest — the bar for five-mana creatures is set by cards that end the game on the spot. Gathan Raiders is a Commander and Pauper card, and only in the right shell.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.03 bulk tier
At $0.03, Gathan Raiders is pure bulk — pick up a copy from any commons bin without thinking twice. Bulk rares spike occasionally on demand, but a niche five-mana common has no realistic price ceiling to watch.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.