Is Gleaming Geardrake good in Commander?

Gleaming Geardrake in Commander — Combos, Decks & Price

Gleaming Geardrake enters with a +1/+1 counter for each artifact you control, turning a wide artifact board into a meaningful threat with no additional investment. The cost is that it does nothing on an empty board — Jenny Flint // Madame Vastra and similar artifact-dense commanders are the reason to run it; anywhere else, it's a vanilla beater.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01

Jenny Flint // Madame Vastra

54.9% of decks · synergy 0.54

Jenny Flint // Madame Vastra generates artifacts constantly, and Gleaming Geardrake converts that token flood directly into a scaled-up body the turn it lands — it's in 55% of those decks for good reason.

02

Ashnod the Uncaring

18.9% of decks · synergy 0.19

Ashnod the Uncaring sacrifices artifacts as a resource, so the Geardrake lands during a window when the board is still stocked and immediately cashes in that count as stats.

03

Rashmi and Ragavan

17.0% of decks · synergy 0.16

Rashmi and Ragavan generates Treasure tokens, and Gleaming Geardrake scales off every one of them — a free spell into a Geardrake with five Treasures in play is a genuine tempo swing.

04

Galazeth Prismari

11.9% of decks · synergy 0.11

Galazeth Prismari builds an artifact-heavy board to tap for mana, and Gleaming Geardrake doubles as a payoff that punishes opponents for leaving that artifact count unchecked.

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

In Commander, Gleaming Geardrake is a role-player in dedicated artifact strategies — nothing more, nothing less. It's legal in every major constructed format, but Modern, Pioneer, and Legacy have faster, more redundant threats that make a conditional beater with no evasion hard to justify. Standard is the one non-Commander context where it's worth a look if you're building around artifact synergies on a budget, since the competition is softer. Oathbreaker mirrors Commander closely enough that the same artifact-density requirement applies.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.27 bulk tier

At $0.27, Gleaming Geardrake is deep bulk — you're picking it up for pennies in a trade binder or filling out a cart to hit free shipping. There's no meaningful price upside here; it's a common that will stay in the bulk box unless artifact synergies spike in a future set.