Pyrewood Gearhulk
Artifact Creature — Construct
Vigilance, menace
When this creature enters, other creatures you control get +2/+2 and gain vigilance and menace until end of turn. Damage can't be prevented this turn.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GR
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Aetherdrift
- Price
- $1.02
- EDHREC rank
- #9105
Pyrewood Gearhulk hits the board and immediately refills your hand or floods the battlefield, making it one of the more impactful six-drops in green-red creature strategies. The cost is real — six mana is six mana — but Alena, Kessig Trapper // Gilanra, Caller of Wirewood decks routinely generate that much mana on turn three or four, which changes the calculus entirely.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Alena, Kessig Trapper // Gilanra, Caller of Wirewood
Pyrewood Gearhulk is the natural payoff for the Alena, Kessig Trapper // Gilanra, Caller of Wirewood engine — Alena banks mana off each large creature that entered, and dropping Gearhulk dumps more creatures into play to repeat the loop.
Samut, the Driving Force
Samut, the Driving Force gives every creature haste, so Pyrewood Gearhulk's triggered value lands the same turn it arrives rather than a full rotation later.
Balthier and Fran
Balthier and Fran care about artifact creatures entering and attacking, and Pyrewood Gearhulk's artifact typing means it slots cleanly into that payoff structure without any additional support.
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 |
In Commander, Pyrewood Gearhulk finds its best home in big-mana green-red decks that can deploy it ahead of curve and chain into more creatures immediately. In competitive constructed formats like Modern and Pioneer, six mana is a steep ask when faster threats dominate, and Gearhulk has yet to carve out a foothold in those fields. Standard is the one non-Commander 60-card format where it has a plausible case — slower midrange matchups give it time to resolve and swing the board, and the artifact creature typing opens synergy angles other six-drops don't offer. Legacy and Vintage have the raw power to cast it quickly but also have better options at every point on the curve, so Pyrewood Gearhulk stays on the shelf there.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$1.02 cheap tier
At $1.02, Pyrewood Gearhulk sits in the budget-staple tier — cheap enough to include on spec without sweating the slot. New-card prices at this level tend to drift lower as supply catches up, so there's no urgency to buy, but there's also no meaningful financial risk in picking one up now.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Alena, Kessig Trapper // Gilanra, Caller of Wirewood
- Samut, the Driving Force
- Balthier and Fran
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.