Desperate Farmer // Depraved Harvester
Creature — Human Peasant // Creature — Human Knight
Lifelink
When another creature you control dies, transform this creature.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Innistrad: Double Feature
- Price
- $0.13
- EDHREC rank
- #18412
Desperate Farmer // Depraved Harvester trades a point of life per turn for a food token, then flips into a 3/3 trampler that refunds life and draws cards whenever you sacrifice a food — a real engine once transformed. The cost is patience: getting to three foods while keeping this creature alive is a meaningful ask in faster pods.
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 |
In Commander, Desperate Farmer // Depraved Harvester slots cleanly into food-sacrifice decks helmed by commanders that generate or care about artifacts and life — the Depraved Harvester back half turns every food pop into a loot and a life swing, which compounds fast in a 40-life format. Pauper is where it has the most competitive relevance, since food synergies at common are real and the card does genuine work at a slot that format can afford to dedicate. In Modern and Pioneer it's a fringe piece at best, outclassed by more efficient value engines, though it finds a home in casual food-themed brews. Legacy and Vintage have no interest in a two-mana 1/1 that takes setup to matter.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.13 bulk tier
At $0.13, Desperate Farmer // Depraved Harvester is deep bulk — you're paying almost nothing for a card with a real upside ceiling. Bulk rares and double-faced commons with niche synergy tend to stay at this floor, so don't expect movement, but the cost to slot it into a food deck is essentially zero.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.