Dreg Mangler
Creature — Plant Zombie
Haste
Scavenge 
(, Exile this card from your graveyard: Put a number of +1/+1 counters equal to this card's power on target creature. Scavenge only as a sorcery.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BG
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Return to Ravnica Promos
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #23022
Dreg Mangler hits the board as a 3/3 with haste for three mana, threatens immediately, and replaces itself with a scavenge counter when it dies. It's a solid role-player in aggressive graveyard shells, but too fair for most Commander tables where the power bar sits higher.
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 |
Dreg Mangler earns its keep most in Pauper, where a 3/3 haste body at common is genuinely above-rate and the scavenge trigger gives it late-game reach that other commons can't match. In Modern and Pioneer it's outclassed — three mana for a vanilla-sized beater with a slow graveyard payoff doesn't clear the competitive bar. Legacy and Vintage don't give it a second look. Commander is where the honest answer is "usually not" — the scavenge synergy can slot into Golgari counters builds, but the body is too small to matter at a 100-card table unless you're specifically building around +1/+1 counters commanders like Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons or Ozolith shells.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Price data isn't currently available for Dreg Mangler, but as a non-mythic card with narrow competitive appeal it has historically sat well under a dollar. Pick it up from a bulk bin rather than paying singles prices — it's not a card that warrants a dedicated purchase unless you're completing a specific deck.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.