Gloomfang Mauler
- Mana cost
- {5}{B}{B}
- Type
- Creature — Nightmare
- Power / toughness
- 5 / 5
- Set
- March of the Machine #108 (common)
- Price
- $0.27 USD
Swampcycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Swamp card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)
Backup 2 (When this creature enters, put two +1/+1 counters on target creature. If that's another creature, it gains the following ability until end of turn.)
Menace
Gloomfang Mauler has 2 printings, first in March of the Machine (2023). EDHREC ranks it #15,701 among Commander cards. It appears most in Nyla, Shirshu Sleuth decks (181 on EDHREC). It has 5 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Gloomfang Mauler most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Nyla, Shirshu Sleuth: 181 decks
- Gorex, the Tombshell: 145 decks
- Oroku Saki, Shredder Rising: 2 decks
- Kamber, the Plunderer: 2 decks
Often played with Gloomfang Mauler
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : If a permanent enters the battlefield as a copy of a card with a backup ability or a token is created that is a copy of that card, the order of the printed abilities is maintained.
- : If a backup ability causes another creature to gain abilities, the creature with backup will still have those abilities.
- : If a backup ability targets the creature with backup, that creature will get +1/+1 counters, but it won’t gain additional abilities.
- : Backup confers only abilities that are actually printed below it. Any abilities that are gained by the permanent are ignored, including abilities gained due to a resolving spell or ability or copy effects.
- : The abilities that backup grants to the target creature are determined only once, at the time the ability triggers. They won’t change if the permanent with backup loses any abilities before the backup ability resolves.