Ghastlord of Fugue
Creature — Spirit Avatar
This creature can't be blocked.
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player reveals their hand. You choose a card from it. That player exiles that card.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BU
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Shadowmoor
- Price
- $1.34
- EDHREC rank
- #18853
Ghastlord of Fugue forces every opponent to reveal their hand whenever it deals combat damage and then lets you exile any nonland card from it — repeatable, no mana required, and it hits all opponents simultaneously. The catch is a five-mana body with no evasion built in beyond its own unblockability clause, meaning it lives or dies on whether you can actually connect.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Ghastlord of Fugue is a niche but functional discard engine — hitting all opponents on damage means one successful swing strips three hands simultaneously, which is genuinely oppressive in a long game. Legacy and Vintage are too fast for a five-mana 4/4 with no immediate impact; it simply doesn't survive long enough to connect before the game is decided. Modern is technically legal but the card sees no play there for the same reason — the format moves at a speed where paying five mana for a creature that needs to attack is too slow to matter. Oathbreaker is the other format worth noting: as a spell rather than a signature spell it's clunky, but black-blue hand-disruption shells can leverage it in longer games the same way Commander can.
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Price Context
Current price
$1.34 cheap tier
At $1.34, Ghastlord of Fugue sits in cheap territory — low enough that picking up a copy for a Dimir discard or hand-control build is a no-risk include. The price reflects its narrow application rather than any lack of power; it's unlikely to climb without a reprint that spikes renewed interest.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.