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Charming Scoundrel

Creature — Human Rogue

Haste
When this creature enters, choose one —
• Discard a card, then draw a card.
• Create a Treasure token.
• Create a Wicked Role token attached to target creature you control.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
rare
Set
Wilds of Eldraine
Price
$0.87
EDHREC rank
#3440
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Charming Scoundrel card art
Charming Scoundrel enters the battlefield and immediately hands you a Treasure, a loot, or a Vow counter — three relevant options at two mana that let the card pull its own weight whatever the board state. The combo ceiling with Chthonian Nightmare and copy engines like Delina, Wild Mage pushes it well past 'flexible two-drop' into 'engine piece worth building around.'

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Delina, Wild Mage

Delina, Wild Mage

59.7% of decks · synergy 0.56

Delina, Wild Mage is the natural home: every non-legendary copy of Charming Scoundrel that Delina produces triggers a fresh enters-the-battlefield choice, stacking Treasures or loot effects until the dice stop rolling in your favor.

02
Rionya, Fire Dancer

Rionya, Fire Dancer

51.9% of decks · synergy 0.49

Rionya, Fire Dancer creates copies at end of combat based on spells cast, and Charming Scoundrel is exactly the kind of cheap, high-ETB-value creature that turns each Rionya activation into a cascade of Treasures or card selection.

03
Alesha, Who Laughs at Fate

Alesha, Who Laughs at Fate

28.0% of decks · synergy 0.26

Charming Scoundrel's power of 2 or less lets Alesha, Who Laughs at Fate recur it repeatedly from the graveyard, turning each attack step into a repeatable loot or Treasure off a single reanimation trigger.

04
The Jolly Balloon Man

The Jolly Balloon Man

26.3% of decks · synergy 0.24

The Jolly Balloon Man rewards low-cost creatures with +1/+1 counters, and Charming Scoundrel at two mana fits the curve while generating a Treasure to accelerate the balloon engine.

05
Shadow the Hedgehog

Shadow the Hedgehog

26.0% of decks · synergy 0.24

Shadow the Hedgehog benefits from creatures that generate value on entry, and Charming Scoundrel's flexibility — Treasure for mana, loot for selection, Vow for protection — means it almost never enters without contributing to the game plan.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

In Commander, Charming Scoundrel earns its slot as a two-mana creature that generates immediate, choice-driven value — three distinct options means it's rarely dead on arrival, and it slots cleanly into copy, flicker, and sacrifice strategies. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer, it sits in the shadow of more streamlined two-drops, but any shell that blinks or recurs creatures will find the ETB worth the slot. Legacy and Vintage offer too much raw power for a two-mana 2/2 to compete outside narrow synergy builds. Standard is where Charming Scoundrel gets the fairest shake outside Commander — it's efficient enough that token and Treasure strategies will pick it up, especially with fewer alternatives pulling at the same role.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.87 bulk tier

At $0.87, Charming Scoundrel sits firmly in bulk territory, which undersells how much work it does in the right shell. Combo and copy decks already run it at a 50–60% rate in its best commanders, so don't expect the price to drop further — bulk with real demand tends to stay right around this floor.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.