Ghitu Fire-Eater
Creature — Human Nomad
, Sacrifice this creature: It deals damage equal to its power to any target.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Seventh Edition
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #29672
Ghitu Fire-Eater trades itself to deal its power in damage directly to a player — a one-time, sorcery-speed effect stapled to a 1/1 body for two mana. The cost is real: you're paying a card and a creature to push through at best one or two damage, which almost never justifies a roster slot.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Ghitu Fire-Eater is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but seeing play in none of them at any meaningful rate. In Commander specifically, one-time direct damage that requires sacrificing the source is far too low-impact — you need either repeatable reach or a meaningfully large power stat to make a sacrifice outlet worthwhile, and a 1/1 for two delivers neither. Legacy and Vintage have access to far more efficient burn and sacrifice effects, so Ghitu Fire-Eater doesn't register there either. Skip it across the board.
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Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
No reliable pricing data is available for Ghitu Fire-Eater at this time, though as a bulk common-era card with negligible competitive demand it almost certainly sits in the pennies range. There's no competitive or casual pressure driving the price up, so don't treat acquisition as time-sensitive.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.