Gurmag Nightwatch
Creature — Human Ranger
When this creature enters, look at the top three cards of your library. You may put one of those cards back on top of your library. Put the rest into your graveyard.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BGU
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Tarkir: Dragonstorm
- Price
- $0.11
- EDHREC rank
- #20937
Gurmag Nightwatch lands as a 3/4 reach for five mana that gains deathtouch whenever you have six or more cards in hand — a conditional upside that requires meaningful deck support to trigger consistently. It's a bulk role-player at best, and in any format with real competition at the five-drop slot, it rarely makes the cut.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Gurmag Nightwatch fits narrowest in high-hand-size strategies — Reliquary Tower decks, Thought Reflection builds, or commanders that reward card accumulation — where the deathtouch clause is live more than half the time. Outside that niche it's a vanilla-ish 3/4 reach for five, which doesn't clear the bar in a 100-card format full of better five-drops. In Pauper it's legal but irrelevant; the format's aggressive and tempo-driven enough that a conditional 3/4 at five mana never stabilizes the board in time. Across Modern, Pioneer, and Legacy, Gurmag Nightwatch doesn't appear — those formats have Gurmag Angler, Murktide Regent, and other threats that don't ask you to maintain a hand of six to be good.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.11 bulk tier
At $0.11, Gurmag Nightwatch is deep bulk — the price reflects exactly what the market thinks of it. It holds no financial interest and is unlikely to spike without a dramatic rules-adjacent reprint or format shake-up that makes hand-size payoffs suddenly competitive.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.