The Most Dangerous Gamer
Legendary Creature — Human Gamer Guest
Deathtouch
Whenever The Most Dangerous Gamer enters or attacks, open an Attraction.
Whenever you open an Attraction, put a +1/+1 counter on The Most Dangerous Gamer.
Whenever you claim the prize of an Attraction, destroy target permanent.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BG
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Unfinity
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #16051
The Most Dangerous Gamer is a three-mana 3/3 that creates Treasure tokens and hunts opponent permanents every time you complete a Saga — raw value that compounds fast in the right shell. The cost is deck construction: you need enough Sagas to make the engine hum, and if you don't have them, you have a mediocre beater.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | banned |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | banned |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | banned |
The Most Dangerous Gamer is banned in Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, and the three restrictions that follow it everywhere else are the reason: it's legendary, it requires Saga density to function, and its payoff only triggers on your own Sagas. In 60-card formats, legendary status limits redundancy, Saga count is harder to sustain without a dedicated build, and the card simply snowballs too fast once it gets going. Commander gives it a pass on all three counts — one copy is all you ever want, you're the commander so it's always available, and 100-card singleton actually rewards you for jamming every on-theme Saga you can find.
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Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data for The Most Dangerous Gamer isn't currently available, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the live number. Given its ban profile in competitive formats, demand in Commander is the primary driver — if you want it, pick it up for a dedicated Saga build rather than speculating on the price moving.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.