Gruul Spellbreaker
Creature — Ogre Warrior
Riot (This creature enters with your choice of a +1/+1 counter or haste.)
Trample
During your turn, you and this creature have hexproof.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GR
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Ravnica Allegiance Promos
- Price
- $0.33
- EDHREC rank
- #18636
Gruul Spellbreaker enters with trample and hexproof on your turn — for three mana, that's a blocker-nullifying, counterspell-dodging threat that demands an immediate answer. It's not a finisher, but it's one of the cleanest ways to push damage through a blue player's open mana.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Gruul Spellbreaker earns its slot in any aggressive Gruul build that needs to fight through counterspells — the hexproof clause applies to you, not just the creature, so it shuts down targeted interaction on your whole turn. In Modern and Pioneer, it sees fringe play in Gruul Stompy and midrange shells as a resilient threat that ignores interaction on the swing, though it typically loses out to more powerful three-drops in competitive lists. Legacy and Vintage have enough broken things happening that a 3/3 with situational hexproof rarely makes the cut. Commander is where Gruul Spellbreaker does its best work, especially under riot-payoff commanders like Xenagos, God of Revels, where the haste mode turns it into an immediate damage threat.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.33 bulk tier
At $0.33, Gruul Spellbreaker is deep bulk — easy to pick up as a throw-in or cheap single. It won't appreciate meaningfully, but at this price the question isn't value, it's just whether it fills a role your deck needs.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.