Acquisitions Expert
Creature — Human Rogue
When this creature enters, target opponent reveals a number of cards from their hand equal to the number of creatures in your party. You choose one of those cards. That player discards that card. (Your party consists of up to one each of Cleric, Rogue, Warrior, and Wizard.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Zendikar Rising
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #20207
Acquisitions Expert enters the battlefield and forces an opponent to discard a card — and with a cleric in play, up to two cards — for two mana at instant speed off a flash enabler or at sorcery speed stapled to a 1/2 body. It's a cheap, repeatable discard trigger in the right shell, but outside of dedicated discard or aristocrats builds it's too narrow to earn a slot.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Acquisitions Expert is a role-player in discard-matters decks — Tinybones, Trinket Thief builds and Rankle, Master of Pranks shells that want repeated hand disruption will find the cleric synergy relevant, but hitting one opponent's hand at the table means diminishing returns against three others. In Modern and Pioneer, hand disruption at two mana competes directly with Thought Erasure and Inquisition of Kozilek, and Acquisitions Expert loses that fight — the body doesn't compensate for the targeting restriction and the floor of one card discarded. Legacy doesn't want it either; the format's discard suite is too efficient for a 1/2 to crack the rotation.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Acquisitions Expert is pure bulk — pick up a playset for a quarter and don't think twice about the price. Bulk commons at this price point don't move unless a deck archetype breaks out around them, so treat it as a free inclusion, not a spec.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.