Ghastbark Twins
Creature — Treefolk
Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)
This creature can block an additional creature each combat.
- CMC
- 7
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Core Set 2019
- Price
- $0.10
- EDHREC rank
- #17667
Ghastbark Twins lands as a 7/7 trample, reach for seven mana — massive stats that demand an answer the turn it enters. The cost is real: seven mana is a lot to ask outside of dedicated big-mana or Forest-matters shells, and Fangorn, Tree Shepherd is the clearest home where that investment pays off immediately.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Fangorn, Tree Shepherd
Fangorn, Tree Shepherd generates mana from basic Forests entering play, which means Ghastbark Twins — a card that cares about how many Forests you control for its power and toughness — fits squarely into the engine Fangorn is already building, showing up in over half of all Fangorn lists.
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 |
Ghastbark Twins is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but competitive constructed formats have no interest in a seven-mana vanilla-adjacent creature with no enters-the-battlefield effect. In Commander it's a role-player in Forest-matters decks — the stat line is genuinely threatening, and trample plus reach covers both offense and defense. Outside of dedicated synergy shells like Fangorn, Tree Shepherd, the Twins are outclassed by cheaper threats or creatures that do more on the way in.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.10 bulk tier
At $0.10, Ghastbark Twins is deep bulk — easy to acquire and easy to cut without regret. Bulk rares this narrow rarely climb in price, so pick it up for the synergy, not for any expectation of value.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.