Cornered Crook
Creature — Lizard Warrior
When this creature enters, you may sacrifice an artifact. When you do, this creature deals 3 damage to any target.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Murders at Karlov Manor
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #27619
Cornered Crook is a 2/2 for two mana that creates a Treasure when it dies — passively reasonable, but nothing that demands a slot. Run it in sacrifice-focused shells where the Treasure is part of a chain; outside of that context, it's outclassed by nearly every other two-drop doing similar work.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Cornered Crook is a role-player in sacrifice or Treasure synergy decks — think Prosper, Tome-Bound or Korvold, Fae-Cursed King — where a death trigger that replaces itself with mana is worth threading into the engine. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer, a 2/2 for two that only generates value on death is too slow and too small; it won't see serious play there. Standard is the most charitable home outside Commander, where limited card pools occasionally elevate bulk creatures, but Cornered Crook still competes against better Treasure generators at the same cost. Legacy and Vintage simply ignore it.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Cornered Crook is deep bulk — you're buying it out of a common box, not a singles page. That price is stable because demand is narrow, and there's no realistic spike vector unless a future set pushes Treasure sacrifice into a tier-one combo shell.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.