Card
Ghalta, Primal Hunger
Mana cost {10}{G}{G}
Legendary Creature — Elder Dinosaur 12/12
This spell costs {X} less to cast, where X is the total power of creatures you control. Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 7 known combos. 4 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Rare · RIX · #130
- Cheapest printing
- €0.84
- EDHREC salt
- 0.44
- Color identity
- Green
- Keywords
- Trample
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B2 Core — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B3 Upgraded — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- No Game Changer, mass land denial, extra turn, tutor or two-card combo
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
7 known combos.
- Brinelin, the Moon Kraken + Gwenna, Eyes of Gaea + Primeval Protector + Ghalta, Primal Hunger
Produces: Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite storm count
View on Commander Spellbook - Brinelin, the Moon Kraken + Gwenna, Eyes of Gaea + Ghalta, Primal Hunger + Thrasta, Tempest's Roar
Produces: Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB
View on Commander Spellbook - Ghalta, Primal Hunger + Defiler of Vigor + Food Chain
Produces: Infinite +1/+1 counters on most creatures you control, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2018-01-19 · Wizards of the Coast
To determine Ghalta's total cost, start with the mana cost (or an alternative cost if another card's effect allows you to pay one instead), add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. Ghalta's mana value remains unchanged, no matter what the total cost to cast it was. - 2018-01-19 · Wizards of the Coast
If a creature's power is somehow less than 0, it subtracts from the total power of your other creatures. If the total power of your creatures is 0 or less, Ghalta's cost remains {10}{G}{G}. - 2018-01-19 · Wizards of the Coast
The total cost to cast Ghalta is locked in before you pay that cost. For example, if you control three 2/2 creatures, including one you can sacrifice to add {C}, the total cost of Ghalta is {4}{G}{G}. Then you can sacrifice the creature when you activate mana abilities just before paying the cost. - 2018-01-19 · Wizards of the Coast
Ghalta's first ability can't reduce its cost below {G}{G}.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast