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Gev, Scaled Scorch

Legendary Creature — Lizard Mercenary

Ward—Pay 2 life.
Other creatures you control enter with an additional +1/+1 counter on them for each opponent who lost life this turn.
Whenever you cast a Lizard spell, Gev deals 1 damage to target opponent.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{B}{R}
Color identity
BR
Rarity
rare
Set
Bloomburrow Promos
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#6163
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Gev, Scaled Scorch card art
Gev, Scaled Scorch turns every creature death into a point of damage to any target — staple a free Goblin Bombardment trigger onto a 3/3 body and you have a card that wins games without any additional setup. The cost is that it only fires once per turn, so engines that generate repeated sacrifice loops need to pace themselves.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Marchesa, the Black Rose

Marchesa, the Black Rose

28.9% of decks · synergy 0.28

Marchesa, the Black Rose runs Gev, Scaled Scorch because the dethrone-and-recur loop generates exactly the repeated death triggers Gev needs to ping opponents down — every creature that dies and comes back is another damage source, and Gev himself survives board wipes as long as Marchesa is online.

02
Laughing Jasper Flint

Laughing Jasper Flint

17.8% of decks · synergy 0.17

Laughing Jasper Flint's aggressive exile-and-cast gameplan kills a lot of creatures in quick succession, and Gev, Scaled Scorch converts that natural churn into direct damage that compounds alongside the commander's other pressure.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Gev, Scaled Scorch is legal across every major constructed format but is essentially a Commander card — the effect is too slow and too conditional to compete in the fast, redundant environments of Modern, Pioneer, or Legacy, where dedicated burn and sacrifice payoffs are either cheaper or more explosive. In Commander, Gev occupies a real role as a 99-card inclusion in any black-red sacrifice shell, converting the inevitable creature death of a 100-card format into inevitability damage. As a commander himself, he rewards patient attrition builds that can reliably kill multiple creatures per turn without relying on him to be in play every turn.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

unknown tier

Current pricing data for Gev, Scaled Scorch isn't available in this snapshot, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the live number. Given his narrow but genuine Commander niche, he typically sits in the budget-to-mid range — worth picking up if you're building sacrifice or aristocrats in Rakdos.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.