Charity Extractor
Creature — Human Knight
Lifelink
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- War of the Spark
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #24812
Charity Extractor turns life loss — your opponents' included — into card draw, which is a genuine engine in black-heavy Commander pods where drain effects are constant. The payoff is real, but a five-mana 3/4 with no immediate draw trigger on entry has to prove itself over several turns to justify the slot.
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 |
Commander is where Charity Extractor actually has a home — four players losing life to fetch lands, shocks, and drain spells means the triggers stack up fast, and black decks that win via life bleed get a free card engine bolted onto their existing plan. In Pauper it's legal but competes in a format where efficient commons set a high bar, and a five-mana creature that draws cards only conditionally is too slow for most builds. Legacy, Vintage, and Modern are non-starters — the effect doesn't come close to the power density those formats demand. Oathbreaker mirrors the Commander logic at a smaller table, which slightly narrows the trigger window but keeps the card functional in the right shell.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Charity Extractor is pure bulk — zero financial risk to try it, zero recovery value if it underperforms. Bulk rares rarely climb without a combo breakout or format shift, and nothing about this card's current trajectory suggests either is coming.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.