Grand Ball Guest
Creature — Human Peasant
Celebration — This creature gets +1/+1 and has trample as long as two or more nonland permanents entered the battlefield under your control this turn.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Wilds of Eldraine
- Price
- $0.03
- EDHREC rank
- #27333
Grand Ball Guest enters with a +1/+1 counter and produces a Food token on entry, giving you two distinct resources from a single two-mana body. It's a role-player in counter-and-sacrifice synergy decks, not a card you build around.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Grand Ball Guest fits neatly into Food-matters, +1/+1 counter, or sacrifice-value decks as a low-floor, no-ceiling filler piece — never the best card but always doing something. In Pauper it competes in a crowded two-drop slot where pure stats matter more, and the Food token rarely generates enough tempo to justify the slot over more aggressive options. Modern and Pioneer have higher power ceilings where Grand Ball Guest's modest enter-the-battlefield value doesn't clear the bar for constructed play. Standard is the one non-Commander venue where it can earn a spot, specifically in aggressive or midrange Food synergy shells where every Food producer has cumulative value.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.03 bulk tier
At $0.03, Grand Ball Guest is deep bulk — pick up as many copies as you need without a second thought. Bulk commons at this price point don't appreciate unless they find a broken synergy, and nothing about Grand Ball Guest's text box suggests that's coming.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.