Ghor-Clan Bloodscale
Creature — Lizard Warrior
First strike
: This creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Activate only once each turn.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GR
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Guildpact
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #30912
Ghor-Clan Bloodscale is a five-mana 2/2 with double strike and bloodthirst 2 — the ceiling is a 4/4 double striker, but that requires dealing damage before you cast it and still leaves you with a creature that dies to a stiff breeze. The rate is too fragile and too conditional to compete with what Gruul decks want at five mana.
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 |
Ghor-Clan Bloodscale is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but sees essentially no play in any of them. In Commander, the five-mana slot demands either immediate board impact or combo relevance — a 4/4 double striker that requires setup provides neither at a table with three opponents and sweepers everywhere. Legacy and Modern have long since moved past battlecruiser creatures at this cost; double strike without evasion or a protection ability is too easy to block or remove at instant speed. Oathbreaker shares the Commander problem scaled down: the 20-life format moves fast enough that a conditional 4/4 rarely closes a game before more efficient threats do.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Ghor-Clan Bloodscale is deep bulk — the kind of card that ends up in a common box at the bottom of a trade binder. Nothing about its demand profile suggests it moves off the floor.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.