Gibbering Fiend
- Mana cost
- {1}{R}
- Type
- Creature — Devil
- Power / toughness
- 2 / 1
- Set
- Shadows over Innistrad #161 (uncommon)
- Price
- $0.32 USD
When this creature enters, it deals 1 damage to each opponent.
Delirium — At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, if there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard, this creature deals 1 damage to that player.
Gibbering Fiend has 1 printing, first in Shadows over Innistrad (2016). EDHREC ranks it #14,172 among Commander cards. It appears most in Zurzoth, Chaos Rider decks (1,925 on EDHREC). It has 5 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Commanders that run Gibbering Fiend most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Zurzoth, Chaos Rider: 1,925 decks
- Raphael, Fiendish Savior: 1,405 decks
Often played with Gibbering Fiend
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : In some rare cases, you can have a token or a copy of a spell in your graveyard at the moment that an object's delirium ability counts the card types among cards in your graveyard, before that token or copy ceases to exist. Because tokens and copies of spells are not cards, even if they are copies of cards, their types will never be counted.
- : The card types in Magic are artifact, battle, creature, enchantment, instant, kindred, land, planeswalker, and sorcery. Supertypes (such as legendary and basic) and subtypes (such as Human and Equipment) are not counted.
- : Most triggered delirium abilities use an intervening "if" clause. There must be four or more card types among cards in your graveyard in order for these abilities to trigger, otherwise they never trigger at all. There's no way to have the ability trigger if there aren't enough card types, even if you intend to raise that number in response to the triggered ability. The number of card types is checked again as the trigger resolves, and if it has become too low somehow, the ability does nothing. If which card types are in your graveyard changes but the quantity of card types stays the same (or increases), then the delirium triggered ability will still resolve.
- : Because you consider only the characteristics of a double-faced card's front face while it's not on the battlefield, the types of its back face won't be counted for delirium.
- : The number of card types matters, not the number of cards. For example, Wicker Witch (an artifact creature) along with Catalog (an instant) and Chaplain's Blessing (a sorcery) will enable delirium.