Geist Trappers
Creature — Human Warrior
Soulbond (You may pair this creature with another unpaired creature when either enters. They remain paired for as long as you control both of them.)
As long as this creature is paired with another creature, both creatures have reach.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Avacyn Restored
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #29341
Geist Trappers enters with a ward counter on each creature you control, turning your entire board into a tax nightmare for opponents who want to target anything. Five mana for that effect is a real cost, but a one-sided Repercussion on targeting is the kind of disruption that warps combat math immediately.
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, Geist Trappers fills a niche role in creature-heavy decks that want to protect a wide board without relying on individual hexproof — the effect scales with how many creatures you have, so token strategies and go-wide builds get the most out of it. In Pauper, the format's reliance on removal makes the ward counters genuinely punishing, and a five-mana common with this kind of board presence is rare enough to see fringe play in green stompy shells. Legacy and Vintage are too fast and too spell-dense for a five-mana creature that doesn't win the game on the spot, so Geist Trappers doesn't register there. Oathbreaker shares enough of Commander's creature-centric DNA that the same go-wide token shells apply.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Geist Trappers is pure bulk — pick up as many as you need without a second thought. Bulk commons with niche but real applications like this one don't climb in price unless a specific deck goes viral, so don't expect that to change.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.