Gila Courser
Creature — Lizard Mount
Whenever this creature attacks while saddled, exile the top card of your library. Until the end of your next turn, you may play that card.
Saddle 1 (Tap any number of other creatures you control with total power 1 or more: This Mount becomes saddled until end of turn. Saddle only as a sorcery.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Outlaws of Thunder Junction
- Price
- $0.18
- EDHREC rank
- #15445
Gila Courser puts a 3/2 body on the board and deals 1 damage to each opponent the moment it enters — three separate pings that matter enormously to Gev, Scaled Scorch's damage-based triggers. The cost is a four-mana 3/2 with no staying power, which would be unplayable in most contexts; here, the enters-the-battlefield damage is the whole point.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Gev, Scaled Scorch
Gev, Scaled Scorch rewards every source of one-damage-to-each-opponent, and Gila Courser delivers three such triggers on a single ETB — making it one of the most efficient ways to immediately advance Gev's damage-accumulation engine without any additional setup.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Gila Courser is legal across Constructed formats but sees essentially no play outside Commander, and even there it's a narrow pick. In Standard, Pioneer, and Modern, a four-mana 3/2 with a small ETB ping has no competitive home. In Commander, it's a one-deck card — slot it into Gev, Scaled Scorch and nowhere else, because any other commander makes this a vanilla understatted creature occupying a slot better spent on a real threat.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.18 bulk tier
At $0.18, Gila Courser is deep bulk — the kind of card you pull from a box rather than buy individually. Demand is narrow enough that the price is unlikely to move unless Gev, Scaled Scorch strategies see a significant spike in popularity.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.