Granger Guildmage
Creature — Human Wizard
, 
: This creature deals 1 damage to any target and 1 damage to you.
, : Target creature gains first strike until end of turn.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GRW
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Mirage
- Price
- $0.14
- EDHREC rank
- #29329
Granger Guildmage offers three distinct activated abilities — mountain walk, first strike, and a pump — each costing one mana and a tap, which sounds flexible until you realize you only ever get one per turn and none of them are good enough to build around. It's a strictly fair, strictly mediocre creature that earns a slot in essentially no competitive list.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Granger Guildmage is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but that legal status is doing a lot of heavy lifting. In Pauper it competes with a deep pool of efficient green commons and doesn't make the cut. In Legacy and Vintage the power bar is high enough that a three-ability one-drop still doesn't register. Commander is theoretically its best home — a mountain walk ability can occasionally punish a red-heavy table — but the tap cost and one-ability-per-turn ceiling make Granger Guildmage too slow and too narrow to justify the slot.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.14 bulk tier
At $0.14, Granger Guildmage is deep bulk — the kind of card that fills a penny bin without complaint. Don't expect that floor to move; demand isn't there to push it anywhere.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.