Trench Gorger
Creature — Leviathan
Trample
When this creature enters, you may search your library for any number of land cards, exile them, then shuffle. If you do, this creature has base power and base toughness each equal to the number of cards exiled this way.
- CMC
- 8
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $2.08
- EDHREC rank
- #16887
Trench Gorger trades your entire land base for a massive body — exile all your lands, and it enters as an X/X where X is the number exiled, which in a typical Commander deck means a 35-plus-power creature on the board. The cost is real: you're locked out of further land drops and most mana sources for the rest of the game, so it only makes sense when you're ending things immediately or cheating it into play for free.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Kenessos, Priest of Thassa
Kenessos, Priest of Thassa can put Trench Gorger directly onto the battlefield from the top of your library, bypassing the eight-mana cast cost entirely — and a 35/35 or larger that entered for free is exactly the kind of immediate threat that closes a game before the land sacrifice matters.
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 |
Trench Gorger is a Commander card through and through — the 100-card singleton format inflates land counts enough that you're routinely looking at a 35/35 or larger, and the one-time land sacrifice is less punishing in a format where a single attack often ends the game anyway. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but practically irrelevant: eight mana is an eternity in those formats, and decks that cheat large creatures into play have options with fewer strings attached. Commander and Oathbreaker are the only homes where Trench Gorger is doing something genuinely threatening rather than just legal.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$2.08 cheap tier
At $2.08, Trench Gorger sits in the budget tier — low enough that including it costs almost nothing, which makes sense given how narrow its application is. It won't appreciate meaningfully without a breakout Commander printing that cheats it into play at scale, so treat it as a cheap role-player rather than a hold.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.