Drownyard Explorers
Creature — Human Wizard
When this creature enters, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Shadows over Innistrad Remastered
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #25606
Drownyard Explorers is a four-mana 2/3 that scrys 2 when it enters — passable card selection stapled to an unremarkable body. The cost in tempo is too steep for most competitive shells, but pauper and casual Commander builds that care about ETB triggers or blue creature count can squeeze value out of it.
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 |
Drownyard Explorers sees essentially no play in Legacy, Modern, or Pioneer — four mana for a scry-2 body is decades behind what those formats demand. In Pauper, it's a legal common and occasionally appears in blue ETB or blink strategies where commons that replace themselves have real value. Commander is where Drownyard Explorers finds its most defensible home: decks that abuse ETB triggers — especially under Brago, King Eternal or Eligeth, Crossroads Augur — can chain the scry into genuine card advantage, and the creature type occasionally matters for tribal counts.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data isn't available for Drownyard Explorers at the moment, but as a bulk common from a mid-2010s set it almost certainly sits well under $0.50 and can be found in most dollar-bin boxes. If you want it, just grab a copy — there's no financial case to delay.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.