Gempalm Avenger
Creature — Human Soldier
Cycling 
(, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
When you cycle this card, Soldier creatures get +1/+1 and gain first strike until end of turn.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Legions
- Price
- $0.13
- EDHREC rank
- #27260
Gempalm Avenger cycles to pump your entire team of Soldiers and grant them first strike until end of turn — a combat trick at instant speed that costs you no card equity. Seven mana to cast it is unplayable, but you will never cast it; the cycle trigger is what you're here for.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is the natural home for Gempalm Avenger, specifically in Soldier tribal decks where the cycling trigger becomes a one-mana instant that can swing combat in your favor without telegraphing anything. In Pauper, Soldier synergies are real and the cycling effect is cheap enough to be relevant, though the card sees essentially no competitive play there. Legacy and Vintage are legal but irrelevant — the effect doesn't clear the bar for those formats. Gempalm Avenger is a niche role-player, and outside of Commander tribal, it doesn't have a home worth discussing.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.13 bulk tier
At $0.13, Gempalm Avenger is deep bulk — you're picking it out of a common box or tossing it in a cart to hit a free-shipping threshold. There's no price pressure coming; this stays bulk unless Soldier tribal becomes a tier-one Commander archetype overnight.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.