Courageous Outrider
Creature — Human Scout
When this creature enters, look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal a Human card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Eldritch Moon
- Price
- $0.06
- EDHREC rank
- #24836
Courageous Outrider enters and lets you look at the top four cards of your library, putting a Human into your hand and the rest on the bottom — free card selection stapled to a 3/3 body for four mana. In dedicated Human tribal decks it's a reliable piece of incremental advantage; outside of that context, a vanilla 3/3 with a narrow filter effect doesn't clear the bar.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Courageous Outrider is a Commander card through and through — the format's singleton structure makes the top-four dig meaningful, and Human tribal shells have enough redundancy to want this level of selection. In Modern and Pioneer, four mana for a 3/3 with conditional card filtering is nowhere near competitive; Human decks in those formats have far more efficient tools. Legacy and Vintage are similarly out of the question. Commander is the only place Courageous Outrider earns a slot, and only inside a Human-matters deck — generic midrange has no use for it.
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Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.06 bulk tier
At $0.06, Courageous Outrider is deep bulk — you're paying almost nothing for a niche tribal piece. Bulk commons and uncommons at this price point don't appreciate, so there's no reason to stock up beyond what your decks actually need.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.