Brackish Trudge
Creature — Fungus Beast
This creature enters tapped.
: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only if you gained life this turn.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Strixhaven: School of Mages
- Price
- $0.07
- EDHREC rank
- #24694
Brackish Trudge is a 3/3 menace for two mana that returns itself from the graveyard whenever you lose life — a recurring threat that punishes opponents for ignoring it. The cost is real: it enters tapped and the recursion requires paying two life, so it rewards life-loss synergies rather than generic aggro.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Brackish Trudge earns its slot in decks that care about life loss as a resource — Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose, Selenia, Dark Rose, or any Rakdos shell running Phyrexian mana and drain effects. The self-recursion is genuinely relevant in a format full of wraths, and menace makes it annoying to block in combat. Outside Commander, Brackish Trudge is legal in Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, and Vintage, but it doesn't come close to seeing play in any of them — those formats move too fast for a tapped 3/3 with a conditional recursion clause to matter.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.07 bulk tier
At $0.07, Brackish Trudge is deep bulk — pick it up for essentially nothing if the synergy fits. Bulk rares with narrow applications rarely climb without a direct combo partner breaking out, so don't expect movement.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.