First printed in Bloomburrow (2024)
Legendary Creature — Lizard Mercenary
Ward—Pay 2 life.
Other creatures you control enter with an additional +1/+1 counter on them for each opponent who lost life this turn.
Whenever you cast a Lizard spell, Gev deals 1 damage to target opponent.
3/2
- Illustrated by
- Mark Zug
Legality
- Legal in
- Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Future Standard, Historic, Timeless, Alchemy, Penny Dreadful, Gladiator, Commander, Duel Commander, Tiny Leaders, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Competitive Brawl
- Not legal in
- Pauper, Premodern, Old School 93/94, Pauper Commander, PreDH
Rulings (2)
- Gev's second ability cares whether opponents lost life this turn, not how their life totals changed. For example, an opponent who gained 2 life and lost 1 life in the same turn still lost life.
- In the case where Gev and one or more other creatures enter at the same time, those creatures won't enter with additional +1/+1 counters, even if one or more opponents lost life this turn.
Prices
MTGO price: 0.006 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 1 Nov 2026).
In Limited on MTG Arena
Win rates in Arena drafts and sealed, retrieved from 17Lands (CC BY 4.0).
| Set | GIH WR | vs set | IWD | Games |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bloomburrow (BLB), Premier Draft | 61.4% | +6.8 | +7.2 | 12046 |
| Bloomburrow (BLB), Sealed | 57.3% | +1.8 | +5.6 | 756 |
- GIH WR
- win rate of the games in which the card was in the opening hand or drawn
- vs set
- points above or below the average win rate of all decks in the set
- IWD
- improvement when drawn: GIH WR minus the win rate when the card stayed in the library
- Games
- games in which the card was seen
Combos
71 combos, the most popular first:
- Infinite damage, Infinite creature LTB…: Gev, Scaled Scorch + Goblin Bombardment (+ 1 other requirement)
- Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB…: Gev, Scaled Scorch + Murderous Redcap
- Infinite scry 1, Infinite creature LTB…: Gev, Scaled Scorch + Viscera Seer (+ 1 other requirement)
- Infinite colorless mana, Infinite creature LTB…: Ashnod's Altar + Gev, Scaled Scorch (+ 1 other requirement)
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature, Infinite creature LTB…: Carrion Feeder + Gev, Scaled Scorch (+ 1 other requirement)
- Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB…: Gev, Scaled Scorch + Yahenni, Undying Partisan (+ 1 other requirement)
- Infinite colored mana, Infinite creature LTB…: Gev, Scaled Scorch + Phyrexian Altar (+ 1 other requirement)
- Infinite self-mill, Infinite creature LTB…: Altar of Dementia + Gev, Scaled Scorch (+ 1 other requirement)
- Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB…: Gev, Scaled Scorch + Putrid Goblin + Skirk Prospector
- Infinite scry 1, Infinite creature LTB…: Gev, Scaled Scorch + Woe Strider (+ 1 other requirement)