Ghalta, Primal Hunger card art

Ghalta, Primal Hunger

Legendary Creature — Elder Dinosaur MV 12

Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.

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What it does

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.)

Combos with Ghalta, Primal Hunger

Lines this card is part of — what it needs alongside it, and what the two of them do. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.

  • Omnath, Locus of Mana Food Chain Infinite
    • Infinite colored mana that can only be used to cast creature spells
    • Infinite commander casts
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinitely large creature
    • Infinite storm count
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Defiler of Vigor Food Chain Infinite
    • Infinite +1/+1 counters on most creatures you control
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite colored mana that can only be used to cast creature spells
    • Infinite commander casts
    • Infinite storm count
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Brinelin, the Moon Kraken Gwenna, Eyes of Gaea Thrasta, Tempest's Roar Infinite
    • Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite storm count
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Vaultborn Tyrant Phyrexian Altar Defiler of Vigor Infinite
    • Infinite card draw
    • Infinite draw triggers
    • Near-infinite +1/+1 counters on most creatures you control
    • Near-infinite creature ETB
    • Near-infinite commander casts
    • Near-infinite death triggers
    • Near-infinite lifegain
    • Near-infinite lifegain triggers
    • Near-infinite storm count
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Gwenna, Eyes of Gaea Ascendant Packleader Ashnod's Altar Infinite
    • Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite colorless mana
    • Infinite commander casts
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite storm count
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →

Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.

Rulings

4 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2018-01-19

    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

    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.

  • 2018-01-19

    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 , the total cost of Ghalta is 4. Then you can sacrifice the creature when you activate mana abilities just before paying the cost.

  • 2018-01-19

    Ghalta's first ability can't reduce its cost below .

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

As a commander

Decks built with Ghalta, Primal Hunger in the command zone.

Decks led 2
Games played 7
Wins 1
Win rate 14.3%

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Ghalta, Primal Hunger, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 6
Games played 18
Win rate 27.8%
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Pantlaza, Sun-Favored 2 6 16.7%
Eshki 1 4 —
Raph & Mikey, Troublemakers 1 2 —
Helga, Skittish Seer 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Naya 2 decks
  • Gruul 1 deck
  • Bant 1 deck

Every version of Ghalta, Primal Hunger

18 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly — a printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall genuinely publishes none for some of them.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Ghalta, Primal Hunger — a name search across every version, for the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.

Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only — no individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.