Gutsplitter Gang
Creature — Goblin Berserker
At the beginning of your first main phase, you may blight 2. If you don't, you lose 3 life. (To blight 2, put two -1/-1 counters on a creature you control.)
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Lorwyn Eclipsed
- Price
- $0.13
- EDHREC rank
- #19997
Gutsplitter Gang is a bulk rare that doesn't clear the bar for most competitive Commander tables — the effect is real, but five mana for a creature that needs setup to pay off is a slow ask. Run it in dedicated go-wide or Menace tribal builds where the payoff compounds; skip it everywhere else.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Gutsplitter Gang is legal across every major constructed format, but the competitive ones — Modern, Pioneer, Legacy — have no interest in a five-mana creature that doesn't close games immediately. Standard is the only 60-card home worth considering, and only in aggressive or token-based shells where the Gang's pressure compounds quickly. Commander is where it actually finds a seat, specifically in decks that flood the board and want to push through blockers; the problem is that five-mana slots in Commander are brutally contested and Gutsplitter Gang rarely beats the alternatives at that cost.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.13 bulk tier
At $0.13, Gutsplitter Gang is deep bulk — no barrier to picking up copies if the deck calls for it. Bulk rares at this price point don't appreciate unless a format breaks them open, and nothing in the current landscape suggests that's coming for this card.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.