Stronghold Gambit
Sorcery
Each player chooses a card in their hand. Then each player reveals their chosen card. The owner of each creature card revealed this way with the lowest mana value puts it onto the battlefield.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Nemesis
- Price
- $0.94
- EDHREC rank
- #23945
Stronghold Gambit forces every player to reveal the highest-mana-value card in their hand simultaneously, then puts all of them onto the battlefield — giving you the same effect as a free cheat spell while handing everyone else the same deal. The card is worth running only when your hand's top end is bigger than your opponents', which in practice means it belongs in decks consistently holding six-plus mana-value bombs.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is the correct home for Stronghold Gambit — four players means three opponents each contributing a free permanent, and the chaos ceiling is high enough that you can reliably exploit it if your deck is built around oversized threats. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but functionally irrelevant; those formats end before the symmetry can be weaponized, and there are cleaner ways to cheat permanents into play. Oathbreaker shares Commander's multiplayer structure, so the same logic applies at a compressed scale, though fewer players reduce the upside.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.94 bulk tier
At $0.94, Stronghold Gambit sits firmly in bulk territory — cheap enough to throw into any list that wants it with zero financial risk. That price is unlikely to move unless a high-profile Commander deck puts it on the radar, so pick it up now if the angle fits your build.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.