Vexing Radgull
Creature — Bird Mutant
Flying
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player gets two rad counters if they don't have any rad counters. Otherwise, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Fallout
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #4513
Vexing Radgull puts a poison counter on each opponent when it enters and whenever another creature you control becomes tapped, which in the right shell translates to a fast, repeatable poison clock. The Wise Mothman turns every one of those counters into a card for each player, meaning Radgull is doing double duty as both win condition and draw engine.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
The Wise Mothman
The Wise Mothman triggers whenever any player gets a poison counter, so Vexing Radgull's tap-based drip feed of counters fires the Mothman engine on your turn, every turn, often hitting multiple opponents at once.
The Master, Transcendent
The Master, Transcendent cares about proliferating and advancing poison totals, and Vexing Radgull supplies the initial counters that make each subsequent proliferate more threatening — getting opponents to two or three counters quickly puts the rest of the table on a clock.
Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus
Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus doubles every proliferate trigger, so the poison counters Vexing Radgull distributes become the seed that proliferate effects then compound; even a modest proliferate package closes games faster with Radgull ensuring everyone starts in range.
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 |
Vexing Radgull is a Commander card through and through — the poison strategy it feeds needs time to accumulate, and a 100-card singleton format with three opponents makes the enter-the-battlefield ping and the tap triggers both more impactful and more scalable. Legacy and Vintage allow it, but infect and poison strategies in those formats run faster, more redundant engines where a four-drop creature that drips counters one at a time doesn't compete. Oathbreaker is the other realistic home, where a proliferate-focused spellslinger build could lean on it, though the smaller game size limits how much work the multi-opponent poison trigger actually does.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
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Current pricing data for Vexing Radgull isn't available, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the live number before buying. Given its near-76% inclusion rate in The Wise Mothman decks it's a staple in that archetype, and staples with that kind of captive demand rarely stay bulk for long.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.