Battlefield Scrounger
Creature — Centaur
Threshold — Put three cards from your graveyard on the bottom of your library: This creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn. Activate only once each turn and only if there are seven or more cards in your graveyard.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Dominaria Remastered
- Price
- $0.03
- EDHREC rank
- #27580
Battlefield Scrounger puts a -1/-1 counter on itself to give you a card from your graveyard — that self-wounding is a feature, not a bug, in any deck that wants counters on its creatures. The narrow payoff makes it a niche inclusion outside those shells, but Volrath, the Shapestealer turns the Scrounger into a live counter-delivery system on demand.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Battlefield Scrounger sees essentially no competitive play in Legacy or Vintage — the effect is too slow and too marginal against what those formats demand. In Commander, it finds its niche in -1/-1 counter synergy builds or graveyard-recursion strategies where the self-ping is an upside rather than a drawback. Pauper is the format where Battlefield Scrounger is at least worth evaluating, since the card pool is shallow enough that incremental graveyard recursion on a creature body has some novelty, though it still rarely makes the cut.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Volrath, the ShapestealerDevoted DruidBattlefield ScroungerMesmeric Orb
Infinite green mana
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Current price
$0.03 bulk tier
At $0.03, Battlefield Scrounger is deep bulk — as cheap as cardboard gets. It holds no financial value and never will, but if the synergy fits your deck, the acquisition cost is essentially zero.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.