Thousand Moons Crackshot
Creature — Human Soldier
Whenever this creature attacks, you may pay 
. When you do, tap target creature.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The Lost Caverns of Ixalan
- Price
- $0.03
- EDHREC rank
- #25224
Thousand Moons Crackshot enters with a +1/+1 counter and pings any target for 1 damage whenever you put a counter on a creature — that's a repeatable burn engine stapled to a body. The cost of three mana for a 1/1 base is real, but in a dedicated counters deck the trigger fires so often it stops mattering.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Thousand Moons Crackshot slots cleanly into any proliferate or +1/+1 counters shell — every time you proliferate or drop an Atraxa trigger, you're also pinging the table. In Standard and Pioneer it's a legitimate build-around in aggressive counters strategies where the damage adds up fast alongside cards like Innkeeper's Talent. Modern and Legacy have more efficient payoffs for the same archetype, so Thousand Moons Crackshot doesn't crack those lineups outside of budget or casual contexts. Pauper is where it could see real play — common-legal counter synergies are plentiful and a repeatable 1-damage ping at common rarity is genuinely threatening.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.03 bulk tier
At $0.03, Thousand Moons Crackshot is pure bulk — grab a playset for the cost of a gumball. Bulk rares with active synergy homes rarely spike hard, but this one has enough redundant competition in the counters space that it's unlikely to move unless a future set makes the archetype tier-one.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.