Cateran Slaver
Creature — Horror Mercenary
Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)
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: Search your library for a Mercenary permanent card with mana value 5 or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Mercadian Masques
- Price
- $0.63
- EDHREC rank
- #26589
Cateran Slaver puts a 4/2 fear body on board and tutors any Mercenary from your library directly into play — the catch is a five-mana cost and a creature type so narrow that most decks have nothing to find. Outside a dedicated Mercenary shell, it does nothing a normal five-drop shouldn't do for free.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Cateran Slaver is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it sees meaningful play in exactly none of them. In Commander, the Mercenary creature type has almost no support worth tutoring for, so the activated ability is dead text in the vast majority of decks. Legacy and Vintage have access to far more powerful five-mana plays, and fear as an evasion keyword is irrelevant in those formats. Oathbreaker inherits the same Commander-style problem: there's no Mercenary payoff worth building around.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.63 bulk tier
At $0.63, Cateran Slaver sits in bulk rare territory, and that price is generous given how little demand exists. It won't trend upward without a meaningful Mercenary-tribal printing to pull it out of obscurity.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.