Sensation Gorger
Creature — Goblin Shaman
Kinship — At the beginning of your upkeep, you may look at the top card of your library. If it shares a creature type with this creature, you may reveal it. If you do, each player discards their hand, then draws four cards.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Morningtide
- Price
- $3.02
- EDHREC rank
- #15532
Sensation Gorger empties every player's hand and refills each with four cards — a reset button that punishes anyone sitting on resources while Goblin tribal decks reload faster than the table expects. The cost is real: handing opponents four fresh cards is a genuine risk, and Sensation Gorger only earns its slot when you're the one most likely to exploit the new grip. In Wort, Boggart Auntie shells built to dump hands fast, it almost always is.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Wort, Boggart Auntie
Wort, Boggart Auntie runs Sensation Gorger as a refuel engine — after the Goblin horde has emptied your hand by turn four or five, the wheel reloads you with four while Wort's recursion ensures any key Goblin you discard cycles back anyway.
Muxus, Goblin Grandee
Muxus, Goblin Grandee decks churn through cards aggressively enough that Sensation Gorger's symmetry tilts heavily in your favor — by the time you trigger the wheel, opponents still holding cards are funding your next assault more than their own.
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 Sensation Gorger actually lives; the four-player table makes the wheel effect punishing for opponents and the Goblin tribal density to exploit it is concentrated in that format. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but has never found a home — Goblin strategies in those formats prize efficiency over hand-reset effects, and a 2/2 body for three doesn't clear the bar. Modern Goblin lists similarly have no interest: the format's Goblin engine is fast enough that a symmetrical wheel reads as a liability rather than an asset. Sensation Gorger is a Commander card through and through, and a narrow one even there, belonging specifically in dedicated Goblin tribal builds rather than any generic red shell.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$3.02 cheap tier
At $3.02, Sensation Gorger sits at the high end of the cheap tier for a card with this narrow an application — it's a tribal-specific role-player, not a staple, so the price reflects low reprint pressure and genuine scarcity in the Goblin tribal community rather than broad demand. It's a fair buy if you're building the deck that wants it, but don't expect the price to climb; demand is too concentrated for meaningful upward movement.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Wort, Boggart Auntie
- Muxus, Goblin Grandee
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.