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Priest of Gix

Creature — Phyrexian Human Cleric Minion

When this creature enters, add {B}{B}{B}.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Foundations Jumpstart
Price
$0.44
EDHREC rank
#6367
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Priest of Gix card art
Priest of Gix enters the battlefield and immediately refunds three black mana — that's not a small effect, that's a free creature in any loop that can recur it. Engines like Chthonian Nightmare make the recursion trivial, and Grenzo, Dungeon Warden builds whole combo lines around the mana it generates the moment it hits play.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Grenzo, Dungeon Warden

Grenzo, Dungeon Warden

50.1% of decks · synergy 0.48

Grenzo, Dungeon Warden appears in roughly half of all Grenzo lists for good reason: Priest of Gix enters from the bottom of the library, immediately produces three black mana, and funds the next Grenzo activation — turning a two-mana investment into a self-sustaining loop.

02
Rakdos, the Muscle

Rakdos, the Muscle

44.8% of decks · synergy 0.43

Rakdos, the Muscle wants creatures that pay for themselves on entry, and Priest of Gix does exactly that — the three black mana it generates offsets its own casting cost and feeds whatever comes next in the chain.

03
Rowan, Scion of War

Rowan, Scion of War

22.0% of decks · synergy 0.20

Rowan, Scion of War taxes life payment into cost reduction, and Priest of Gix pairs with life-loss effects to produce mana cheaply enough that the whole engine accelerates ahead of curve.

04
Orah, Skyclave Hierophant

Orah, Skyclave Hierophant

20.4% of decks · synergy 0.20

Orah, Skyclave Hierophant triggers off Cleric death, and Priest of Gix is a Cleric that keeps returning to fuel those triggers — each loop iteration generates three black mana and resets the engine.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Priest of Gix lives — the format's multiplayer pace gives you time to assemble the recursion loops that turn three-mana-on-entry into a game-ending engine. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but largely irrelevant; faster combo decks don't need a three-mana creature to generate mana when one-mana alternatives exist. Modern, Pioneer, Standard, and Pauper are all off the table, which effectively means Commander and Oathbreaker are its competitive homes. Oathbreaker can exploit it in black storm or reanimator shells, but the raw number of synergy pieces available in Commander makes that format the clear primary context for Priest of Gix.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.44 bulk tier

At $0.44, Priest of Gix is bulk — but it's the kind of bulk that earns its slot in competitive Commander lists, which keeps copies moving steadily enough that the floor is stable. Don't expect price growth, but don't expect it to get cheaper either; demand from Grenzo and Rakdos builds alone is consistent.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.