Caravan Vigil
Sorcery
Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Morbid — You may put that card onto the battlefield instead of putting it into your hand if a creature died this turn.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Innistrad
- Price
- $0.17
- EDHREC rank
- #12697
Caravan Vigil fetches a basic land onto the battlefield tapped — the morbid clause is a downside condition, not an upside, since you need a creature to have died just to match what Rampant Growth does unconditionally. It's strictly worse than its competition and earns a slot only in the deepest budget builds or morbid-themed decks that need redundancy at any cost.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Caravan Vigil sits at the bottom tier of one-mana ramp — it demands a creature death before it functions like a plain Rampant Growth, and that condition is unreliable in the early turns when you most need land acceleration. Pauper is the one format where Caravan Vigil has a theoretical home, since the card pool is narrow enough that morbid synergies and cheap ramp overlap in sacrifice-based decks. Legacy and Vintage have no interest in it — both formats have access to far more efficient mana acceleration that doesn't ask you to jump through hoops. In Oathbreaker the same Commander logic applies: slot pressure is tight, and unconditional ramp almost always wins out.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.17 bulk tier
At $0.17, Caravan Vigil is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not card power. It holds no financial value and won't appreciate, but if you're sleeving up a zero-budget morbid deck and need a ninth ramp piece, the entry cost is as low as it gets.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.