Blacksnag Buzzard
Creature — Bird
Flying
This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it if a creature died this turn.
Plot 
(You may pay and exile this card from your hand. Cast it as a sorcery on a later turn without paying its mana cost. Plot only as a sorcery.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Outlaws of Thunder Junction
- Price
- $0.04
- EDHREC rank
- #23379
Blacksnag Buzzard enters with a Clue token and draws a card when any creature dies, stapling two forms of card advantage onto a single body. Three mana for a 2/1 flier with that much upside is a legitimate rate, and in any deck that kills things regularly, it pays for itself immediately.
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 |
In Commander, Blacksnag Buzzard fits cleanly into sacrifice and aristocrats shells where creatures die every turn cycle — the draw trigger fires constantly, and the Clue gives you something to crack when the board stalls. Competitive 60-card formats have faster clocks and more efficient draw engines, so Blacksnag Buzzard is unlikely to make the cut in Modern or Pioneer outside of niche sacrifice builds. In Pauper it's worth a serious look: the combination of flying, enter-the-battlefield value, and repeatable draw is a lot of text for common, and the format's creature-heavy metagame makes the death trigger easy to enable.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.04 bulk tier
At $0.04, Blacksnag Buzzard is deep bulk — the kind of card you pick out of a commons box without a second thought. That price is stable; there's no pressure driving it up, but the effect is strong enough that it sees real play, so don't expect it to disappear from tables anytime soon.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.