Lesser Gargadon
Creature — Beast
Whenever this creature attacks or blocks, sacrifice a land.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $0.16
- EDHREC rank
- #22306
Lesser Gargadon enters as a 3/4 for one mana — that line alone justifies its existence, and the suspend cost is the fine print, not the point. The Beamtown Bullies puts it into play from the graveyard tapped and attacking, bypassing suspend entirely and turning a technical drawback into a free 3/4 beater on your opponent's turn.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
The Beamtown Bullies
The Beamtown Bullies discards Lesser Gargadon to an opponent's graveyard, then reanimates it tapped and attacking — the suspend clause never resolves, and a 3/4 for effectively zero mana crashes in before the turn even reaches its owner.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Lesser Gargadon actually sees play, almost entirely as a Beamtown Bullies target rather than a standalone threat. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but irrelevant — suspend aggro has never been a competitive axis, and a 3/4 with no immediate board impact doesn't compete with what those formats are doing on turn one. Modern is the same story: the card is technically castable but has no shell that wants it. Lesser Gargadon is a singleton Commander piece, full stop, and it earns that slot narrowly but honestly.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.16 bulk tier
At $0.16, Lesser Gargadon is deep bulk — the kind of card you pull from a dollar box without thinking twice. Demand is narrow enough that the price isn't going anywhere, but at this tier you're not buying it for value, you're buying it because it does a specific job in one specific deck for essentially nothing.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.