Greater Forgeling
Creature — Elemental
: This creature gets +3/-3 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Ravnica: City of Guilds
- Price
- $0.13
- EDHREC rank
- #30144
Greater Forgeling enters as a 1/1 and immediately spends all your mana to become whatever size your artifact count allows — the payoff is real, but you're tapping out and passing with a creature that has no protection. Run it in decks that can protect it or close the turn it lands.
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 |
Greater Forgeling is legal in Commander, and that's where it does its best work — artifact-heavy builds can make it enormous on curve, and the singleton format's slower pace gives it room to stick. In Pauper it's technically legal but competes with more efficient commons, so it rarely makes the cut. Legacy and Vintage are non-starters; a tap-out 4-drop that doesn't win on the spot has no place in those formats. Stick to Commander artifact synergy shells.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.13 bulk tier
At $0.13, Greater Forgeling is deep bulk — easy to pick up without a second thought. Bulk rares with narrow synergy requirements rarely appreciate, so buy it to play it, not to hold it.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.