Gravel Slinger
Creature — Human Soldier
: This creature deals 1 damage to target attacking or blocking creature.
Morph 
(You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for 
. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Onslaught
- Price
- $0.08
- EDHREC rank
- #30832
Gravel Slinger trades one mana and a tap to deal 1 damage to any creature with flying — narrow, slow, and replaceable by any number of instant-speed answers. A 2/2 body for three mana with a tap ability that doesn't threaten combat is asking too much for too little.
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 |
Gravel Slinger is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but that breadth of legality doesn't translate to actual play. In Commander, pinging a single flier for 1 at sorcery speed — tapping your creature to do it — is far below the power bar; dedicated flying hate like Gravity Well or Bower Passage does more with less. In Pauper, where the card is at least operating in a lower-power environment, it still loses to commons that answer flying creatures more efficiently or more broadly. Gravel Slinger is technically legal in many formats and competitively relevant in none of them.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.08 bulk tier
At $0.08, Gravel Slinger sits firmly in bulk territory — the kind of card that fills a penny bin without ever leaving it. The price accurately reflects the demand: essentially zero, and that's not changing.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.