Gelatinous Cube
Creature — Ooze
Engulf — When this creature enters, exile target non-Ooze creature an opponent controls until this creature leaves the battlefield.
Dissolve — 
: Put target creature card with mana value X exiled with this creature into its owner's graveyard.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Adventures in the Forgotten Realms Promos
- Price
- $0.65
- EDHREC rank
- #15659
Gelatinous Cube exiles everything it damages and turns your graveyard into a live weapon the moment it leaves the battlefield — that's a removal engine and recursion setup stapled to one card. The Mimeoplasm in particular loves it: exile your opponents' best creatures into the Cube, then pop it and choose two targets for Mimeoplasm to eat.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
The Mimeoplasm
The Mimeoplasm wants creatures in graveyards, and Gelatinous Cube is a graveyard-stuffing machine that also removes threats — when the Cube dies or gets sacrificed, all those exiled cards dump into the graveyard at once, giving The Mimeoplasm a stocked buffet of power and toughness to copy and modify.
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 |
Gelatinous Cube is a Commander card through and through — the slow accumulation of exiled creatures and the payoff on death maps perfectly to a 40-life multiplayer game where it has time to eat multiple threats. In competitive 1v1 formats like Modern or Legacy, a five-mana 4/4 that takes a full turn to start exiling is too slow to matter, and the graveyard payoff rarely survives long enough to trigger. Oathbreaker sits closer to Commander in pace, so the Cube can function there, but it's the 99-card singleton format where it genuinely earns a slot.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.65 bulk tier
At $0.65, Gelatinous Cube sits firmly in bulk territory, which makes it an easy include to test without financial risk. Bulk rares rarely climb without a tournament breakout, and this card's power ceiling is Commander-specific, so don't expect movement — just buy it and sleeve it.
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Sources
Mentioned
- The Mimeoplasm
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.