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Anurid Scavenger

Creature — Frog Beast

Protection from black
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this creature unless you put a card from your graveyard on the bottom of your library.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Torment
Price
$0.22
EDHREC rank
#22447
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Anurid Scavenger card art
Anurid Scavenger is a 3/2 with graveyard-based protection — pay one green and exile a card from your graveyard at your upkeep, or sacrifice it. The cost is real, but in decks that treat the graveyard as a resource rather than a destination, River Song and similarly graveyard-hungry commanders can make that exile trigger a feature instead of a drawback.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Anurid Scavenger is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, and sees essentially no play in any of them. In Commander it occupies a narrow niche: graveyard-hate decks that need a cheap creature with incidental self-exile, or decks that actively want cards leaving the graveyard to trigger other effects. Legacy and Vintage have no interest — a 3/2 with an upkeep cost is nowhere near the power floor those formats demand. Oathbreaker could theoretically make use of it in a green value shell, but better options exist at every point on the curve.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.22 bulk tier

At $0.22, Anurid Scavenger is deep bulk — the kind of card you pull from a dollar box without thinking twice. Don't expect that price to move; there's no competitive demand and no reprint pressure driving it in either direction.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.