Is Gravitic Punch good in Commander?

Gravitic Punch

Sorcery

Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to target player.
Jump-start (You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding a card in addition to paying its other costs. Then exile this card.)

CMC: 4
Mana cost
Color identity: R
Rarity: common
Set: The List
Price: $0.26
EDHREC rank: #9394

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Gravitic Punch deals damage equal to a creature's power directly to any player, and the rebound means you get that trigger twice for one card — that's a two-turn clock for a single red mana if you have the right body in play. Commanders that copy instants and sorceries, like Kalamax, the Stormsire or Melek, Reforged Researcher, turn this from a finisher into a game-ender on the spot.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

Melek, Reforged Researcher

53.3% of decks · synergy 0.52

Melek, Reforged Researcher casts spells from the top of your library, and Gravitic Punch's rebound means it's still live the following turn — pair that with copy effects Melek naturally generates and you can stack enough face damage to close out the table without ever swinging into blockers.

Thromok the Insatiable

24.0% of decks · synergy 0.23

Thromok the Insatiable devours your entire board to become an obscenely large creature, and Gravitic Punch converts that power directly into lethal damage — no combat math, no blockers to navigate, just point and kill.

Mr. Orfeo, the Boulder

12.8% of decks · synergy 0.12

Mr. Orfeo, the Boulder cares about dealing combat damage through big creatures, and Gravitic Punch gives that same big-power shell a non-combat kill shot — useful for opponents who've walled off the ground but left their life total exposed.

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

Commander is where Gravitic Punch actually earns its slot: three opponents mean three targets, rebound stretches one card across two turns, and decks that copy spells or inflate a single creature's power routinely use it as a primary win condition. In Pauper, it's a legal common that sees fringe play in spell-copy brews, though the format moves fast enough that two-turn kill setups face real resistance. Legacy, Vintage, Pioneer, and Modern all have access to it, but the effect is too slow and conditional to compete in those formats — you're not casting this in a Modern Murktide list.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

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