Glittermonger
Creature — Elf Rogue
: Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with ", Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Streets of New Capenna
- Price
- $0.08
- EDHREC rank
- #13792
Glittermonger turns treasure tokens into a Threaten effect on demand — every activation steals a creature until end of turn, which is a meaningful threat in any multiplayer game where opponents are ahead on board. The cost is real: you need both mana and a steady treasure supply to make it reliable, but in Jolene, the Plunder Queen builds that stockpile through normal gameplay, and even Hazel's Brewmaster shells generate enough incidental treasure to fire it off twice in a turn.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Jolene, the Plunder Queen
Jolene, the Plunder Queen rewards opponents for trading resources with you, which means her decks accumulate treasures fast enough to feed Glittermonger every turn cycle — stealing a blocker or attacker while converting excess tokens into activations is exactly the kind of value the strategy wants.
Vazi, Keen Negotiator
Vazi, Keen Negotiator distributes counters across the table, which generates treasure from multiple players simultaneously, and Glittermonger converts that surplus directly into board-state swings by taking whatever creature is most threatening in the moment.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Glittermonger is a Commander card through and through — the Threaten effect on a repeatable artifact body scales with the number of opponents and the size of the boards they develop, both of which Commander delivers in abundance. In Pauper it's legal but competes in a format where treasure generation is narrower and the repeated activation cost is harder to sustain without dedicated support. Modern and Pioneer have the treasure infrastructure to fuel it, but the effect is too slow and fragile for those formats' pace — you'd rather just run a disruptive threat that doesn't require resource investment each turn. Legacy and Vintage are non-starters for the same reason at an even steeper scale.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Hazel's BrewmasterGourmand's TalentGlittermonger
Infinite ETB; Infinite tapped Food tokens; Infinite tapped Treasure tokens
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March of the MachinesIntruder AlarmGlittermonger
Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce; Infinite untap of creatures; Infinite untap of creatures you control
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Acererak the ArchlichGoreclaw, Terror of Qal SismaGlittermongerChakram Retriever
Infinite card draw; Infinite draw triggers; Near-infinite +1/+1 counters; Near-infinite colored mana; Near-infinite creature tokens; Near-infinite ETB; Near-infinite lifegain; Near-infinite lifegain triggers; Near-infinite lifeloss; Near-infinite LTB; Near-infinite sacrifice triggers; Near-infinite Treasure tokens; Near-infinite ventures into the dungeon
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Current price
$0.08 bulk tier
At $0.08, Glittermonger is deep bulk — pick it up in any common box without thinking twice. Bulk rares with narrow synergy profiles rarely climb unless a new commander pushes the archetype hard, so treat it as a cheap slot-filler rather than a spec.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.