Grayscaled Gharial
Creature — Crocodile
Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Ravnica: City of Guilds
- Price
- $0.12
- EDHREC rank
- #23172
Grayscaled Gharial is a 1/1 for one blue mana that grows a +1/+1 counter whenever you cast a creature spell — fine in dedicated counters synergy, irrelevant everywhere else. It gets outclassed by nearly every comparable one-drop in that archetype, and there's no reason to run it unless you're deep in an Atraxa or Simic counters build scraping for the last slot.
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 |
Grayscaled Gharial is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pauper, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but competitive play at any of those levels ignores it entirely. In Pauper and Modern, one-drops that don't impact the board immediately don't make cuts. Commander is the only format where Grayscaled Gharial has any realistic home — specifically in counters-matter builds that want cheap bodies to snowball — but even there it competes poorly against Pelt Collector, Experiment One, and similar one-drops that grow faster and more aggressively.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.12 bulk tier
At $0.12, Grayscaled Gharial is bulk, and that price reflects its demand accurately. Don't expect it to move — it's not chased in any format, and bulk commons at this price tier tend to stay there.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.