Thought Gorger
Creature — Horror
Trample
When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on it for each card in your hand. If you do, discard your hand.
When this creature leaves the battlefield, draw a card for each +1/+1 counter on it.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Rise of the Eldrazi
- Price
- $0.31
- EDHREC rank
- #22785
Thought Gorger enters as a massive threat — potentially a 10/10 or larger — by consuming your entire hand, then refills it when it leaves. The catch is real: you're discarding every card you're holding, so if Thought Gorger dies before you untap, you've emptied your hand for nothing.
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 |
Thought Gorger is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it's essentially a Commander card — the formats where creature power-to-cost ratios matter less and where graveyard and discard synergies run deep enough to absorb the downside. In Modern and Legacy, a four-mana 2/2 that blanks your hand is unplayable; those formats punish tempo losses mercilessly, and a single removal spell in response to the enter trigger leaves you with nothing. Commander is where Thought Gorger finds a real home, specifically in discard-synergy or reanimator builds that either profit from the self-discard or have enough card draw to ignore it.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.31 bulk tier
At $0.31, Thought Gorger is firmly bulk — easy to pick up as a throw-in or cheap addition to a targeted discard build. The price reflects its narrow playability; it won't climb without a breakout Commander synergy surfacing, so buy it for the effect, not for speculation.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.