Cabal Inquisitor
Creature — Human Minion
Threshold — 
, 
, Exile two cards from your graveyard: Target player discards a card. Activate only as a sorcery and only if there are seven or more cards in your graveyard.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Odyssey
- Price
- $0.08
- EDHREC rank
- #28952
Cabal Inquisitor forces a discard for two mana — but only if you can pay the threshold tax of exiling two cards from your graveyard, making it a conditional effect that competes poorly with unconditional discard at the same cost. Outside of dedicated graveyard-matters builds that want to sculpt the bin anyway, it doesn't pull its weight.
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 |
In Commander, Cabal Inquisitor is a fringe inclusion at best — targeted discard is weakest in a four-player format where you're trading one card to strip one card from one opponent, and the threshold cost means you're spending graveyard resources on top of that. Pauper is the format where it has seen the most real play, slotting into black control shells that reach threshold early and want redundant discard pressure alongside Chittering Rats and similar effects. Legacy and Vintage have access to far more efficient discard — Thoughtseize, Hymn to Tourach — so Cabal Inquisitor doesn't register there. Oathbreaker shares Commander's multiplayer problem, compounding the targeting inefficiency.
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Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.08 bulk tier
At $0.08, Cabal Inquisitor is deep bulk — the kind of card you pull from a commons box without thinking twice. It won't appreciate; supply is high and demand is narrow enough that the price floor is essentially the cost of a sleeve.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.