Gurzigost
Creature — Beast
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this creature unless you put two cards from your graveyard on the bottom of your library.
, Discard a card: You may have this creature assign its combat damage this turn as though it weren't blocked.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Torment
- Price
- $0.34
- EDHREC rank
- #27592
Gurzigost is a 6/4 trampler for five mana that keeps itself alive by eating your graveyard — but the upkeep tax of exiling three cards or sacrificing it makes it a liability in any deck that cares about its own graveyard. Outside of very specific self-mill-into-exile strategies, the body isn't worth the running cost.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Gurzigost occupies a narrow niche: it only makes sense in dedicated self-mill decks that generate enough graveyard volume to sustain the upkeep exile without gutting a combo or recursion line. Legacy and Vintage have access to it legally but would never run it — five mana for a vanilla-sized trampler with a maintenance cost doesn't compete in those formats. Oathbreaker shares Commander's singleton structure, so the same graveyard-volume requirement applies there, and the smaller starting life total makes a 6/4 slightly more relevant, but the restriction is identical.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.34 bulk tier
At $0.34, Gurzigost is deep bulk — no demand is propping this up, and nothing about its effect profile suggests that changes. It's a safe pickup for the pennies it costs if you're building around it, but don't expect it to appreciate.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.