Ghost Tactician
Creature — Spirit Spellshaper
, 
, Discard a card: Creatures you control get +1/+0 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Planar Chaos
- Price
- $0.08
- EDHREC rank
- #30475
Ghost Tactician gives your attacking creatures +0/+1 and lifelink until end of turn — a combat trick stapled to a body that sits on the battlefield and asks to be activated again and again. The three-mana activation cost is steep enough that you need a dedicated lifegain or go-wide shell to justify the slot, but in the right deck it pulls real weight.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Ghost Tactician finds its home in lifegain-matters decks — commanders like Oloro, Ageless Ascetic or Lathiel, the Bounteous Dawn want every lifelink trigger they can stack, and a repeatable combat-wide grant is worth the activation tax. In Pauper, the common slot is competitive real estate and Ghost Tactician is too mana-hungry to see serious play there. Legacy and Vintage have no interest — the effect is far below the power threshold those formats demand. Oathbreaker mirrors the Commander read: niche but functional in the right lifegain shell.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.08 bulk tier
At $0.08, Ghost Tactician is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not scarcity. Bulk commons and uncommons at this price point don't appreciate, so pick it up for pennies if the effect fits your deck and don't think twice about it otherwise.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.