Gleeful Arsonist card art

Gleeful Arsonist

Creature — Human Wizard MV 3

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What it does

Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, this creature deals damage equal to its power to that player.

Undying (When this creature dies, if it had no +1/+1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it.)

Combos with Gleeful Arsonist

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.

  • Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn // Isilu, Carrier of Twilight Ashnod's Altar Infinite
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite colorless mana
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Champion of the Weird Vein Ripper Infinite
    • Infinite -1/-1 counters
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite lifegain triggers
    • Infinite lifeloss
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →

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

Rulings

3 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2024-09-20

    If Gleeful Arsonist is no longer on the battlefield when its first ability resolves, use its power as it last existed on the battlefield to determine how much damage it deals.

  • 2024-09-20

    Gleeful Arsonist's first ability resolves before the spell that caused it to trigger. It resolves even if that spell is countered.

  • 2024-09-20

    Once undying returns the creature, it's considered a new object with no relation to the object that it was. Auras that were attached to it won't return to the battlefield. Equipment that was attached to it will remain unattached. Any counters that were on it won't be put on the new creature.

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

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Gleeful Arsonist, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 2
Games played 0
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games — not enough to publish a rate yet.
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 1 0 —
Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Rakdos 2 decks

Every version of Gleeful Arsonist

2 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 Gleeful Arsonist — 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.