Scourge of Geier Reach
Creature — Elemental
This creature gets +1/+1 for each creature your opponents control.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Innistrad
- Price
- $0.08
- EDHREC rank
- #23904
Scourge of Geier Reach taxes every spell your opponents cast for each Human you control — in the right deck, that's a meaningful drain on their resources every single turn. The cost is a five-mana 3/3 body that does nothing if you're not already running a Human-heavy list.
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 |
Scourge of Geier Reach is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it's a Commander card through and through. In 60-card formats, a five-mana 3/3 with a conditional tax effect can't compete with the efficiency those formats demand. Commander is where the math works — slower games, more opponents, and tribal synergy packages mean the incremental tax compounds across three players for an entire game. Human tribal commanders like Jirina Kudro or Sigarda, Champion of Light can reliably back it with enough bodies to make every opposing cast cost an extra two or three mana.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.08 bulk tier
At $0.08, Scourge of Geier Reach is deep bulk — you're paying essentially nothing for a card with real upside in the right shell. Bulk rares at this price point rarely appreciate unless a commander pushes the synergy into the spotlight, so treat it as a cheap pickup, not a spec.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.