Gnarled Mass
Creature — Spirit
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Betrayers of Kamigawa
- Price
- $0.22
- EDHREC rank
- #23571
Gnarled Mass is a 3/3 with no abilities for three mana — vanilla by definition, and that's exactly the point in the one deck that wants it. Outside of Ruxa, Patient Professor, it has no competitive case to make.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Ruxa, Patient Professor
Ruxa, Patient Professor specifically rewards creatures with no abilities, and Gnarled Mass is a clean 3/3 that slots into that engine without diluting the payoff — pump effects and trample from Ruxa make the base stats matter.
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 |
Gnarled Mass is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but its relevance in competitive formats is essentially zero — a vanilla 3/3 for three mana has been outclassed in fair game contexts for decades. In Commander it has exactly one home worth naming: Ruxa, Patient Professor, where the no-abilities clause is a feature rather than a flaw. Pauper has the theoretical space but no shell that rewards blank vanilla creatures the way Ruxa does.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.22 bulk tier
At $0.22, Gnarled Mass is deep bulk — the kind of card you find in a common box at the bottom of a binder. Demand is narrow enough that the price is unlikely to move in either direction.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.