Curious Forager
Creature — Squirrel Druid
When this creature enters, you may forage. When you do, return target permanent card from your graveyard to your hand. (To forage, exile three cards from your graveyard or sacrifice a Food.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Bloomburrow
- Price
- $0.15
- EDHREC rank
- #9318
Curious Forager is a two-mana 1/1 that replaces itself by exiling the top card of your library and letting you cast it — solid card advantage stapled to a creature body. It earns its slot most decisively in Camellia, the Seedmiser and Ygra, Eater of All, where the insect typing and the cast trigger each pull double duty.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Camellia, the Seedmiser
Curious Forager is an insect, so Camellia, the Seedmiser draws a card the moment it enters — and the exile-and-cast effect adds an extra play each turn, stretching Camellia's card-advantage engine across multiple axes.
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 |
Curious Forager is a Commander card, full stop. In 60-card formats it competes against cantrips and value creatures that do more for less, and a 1/1 body with a one-shot impulse draw doesn't clear the bar in Modern, Pioneer, or Legacy. In Commander, the calculus flips — any commander that cares about insects, casting from exile, or creatures entering the battlefield turns Curious Forager into a cheap, repeatable source of card advantage that dodges the graveyard entirely. Outside of dedicated synergy shells, it's still a medium card, but those shells are real and heavily played.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Ygra, Eater of AllAlurenCurious Forager
Infinite LTB; Infinite ETB; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite death triggers; Infinite storm count; Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
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Current price
$0.15 bulk tier
At $0.15, Curious Forager is bulk — easy to pick up as a throw-in or a cheap slot filler. Bulk creatures with narrow synergy rarely climb in price, so don't expect movement unless a future commander pushes the insect or cast-from-exile axis hard.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Ygra, Eater of All
- Camellia, the Seedmiser
- Aluren
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.