Action News Crew
Creature — Human Citizen
Vigilance
Channel — 
, Discard this card: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control. Draw a card.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Price
- $0.07
- EDHREC rank
- #25521
Action News Crew is a five-mana 3/3 that replaces itself with a Clue and prints a free instant or sorcery from the top of your library whenever it or another creature you control dies. The payoff is real in sacrifice-heavy shells, but the body is underpowered for the cost outside of dedicated synergy decks.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Action News Crew is a Commander card — full stop. The death-trigger draw engine rewards the kind of recursive sacrifice loops and token floods that Commander tables run naturally, and a Clue on entry softens the five-mana ask. In 60-card formats, five mana for a 3/3 with conditional value doesn't come close to the efficiency bar, and the free-spell trigger requires creatures to die at a pace those formats rarely sustain. Pauper is where the cost hurts most — the format's cheap removal and fast clocks punish slow, fragile bodies. Stick to Commander, specifically under a sacrifice or aristocrats commander who turns every death into a draw step.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.07 bulk tier
At $0.07, Action News Crew is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard and shipping, not the card. Bulk rares with niche synergy profiles tend to stay at this floor unless a combo breakout or reprint in a precon moves the needle, so treat it as a low-risk pickup for the decks that want it.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.