Carrion Locust
Creature — Insect Horror
Flying
When this creature enters, exile target card from an opponent's graveyard. If it was a creature card, that player loses 1 life.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The Brothers' War
- Price
- $0.06
- EDHREC rank
- #19390
Carrion Locust makes a 1/1 flying Insect token whenever a creature dies — which sounds useful until you notice it costs five mana for a 2/2 with no evasion of its own. Sacrifice synergies need this effect reliably and cheaply, and Carrion Locust delivers neither.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Carrion Locust is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but that breadth is largely academic — five mana for a 2/2 in competitive formats is unplayable on rate. In Commander, the only realistic home is a dedicated Insect tribal or aristocrats shell where the death-trigger tokens matter thematically, but even there Carrion Locust competes against cheaper, more explosive payoffs. Pauper is the one format where commons carve out niche roles, yet the five-mana slot is brutal in a format defined by efficiency, and the token output is too slow to matter.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.06 bulk tier
At $0.06, Carrion Locust is deep bulk — the kind of card that ends up in a dollar box by accident. Don't expect the price to move; there's no competitive demand and no casual spike on the horizon to change that.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.