April, Reporter of the Weird
Legendary Creature — Human Detective
Whenever April deals combat damage to a player, draw that many cards, then discard a card.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Price
- $0.20
- EDHREC rank
- #20881
April, Reporter of the Weird draws you a card every time you cast a spell with an unusual type — Sagas, Contraptions, Attractions, Phenomena, and the like — making it a passive engine in any deck that leans into those fringe permanent types. The cost is real: outside dedicated oddity builds, most decks can't trigger it consistently enough to justify the slot.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, April, Reporter of the Weird occupies a narrow but legitimate niche: Saga-heavy decks in Esper, Grixis, or multicolor shells get reliable triggers and welcome the free card draw at a low mana investment. In 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer, the unusual-type density is too low in most competitive lists for April to do consistent work, though a dedicated Saga-synergy brew in Modern could squeeze value out of it. Standard has enough Sagas in rotation at any given time to make April, Reporter of the Weird a fringe consideration in enchantment-matters shells, but it rarely cracks competitive lists there either. Legacy and Vintage have the card pool to support it but far more powerful draw engines — April won't see play at those tables. Oathbreaker mirrors the Commander calculus: pick a planeswalker that generates unusual-type spells and April pulls its weight.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.20 bulk tier
At $0.20, April, Reporter of the Weird is firmly bulk — a pickup that costs almost nothing to test in any Saga-heavy build. Bulk rares with narrow synergy profiles rarely climb unless a new card or precon dramatically raises the floor on unusual-type strategies, so don't expect price movement.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.