Erg Raiders
Creature — Human Warrior
At the beginning of your end step, if this creature didn't attack this turn, it deals 2 damage to you unless it came under your control this turn.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $0.03
- EDHREC rank
- #29508
Erg Raiders is a 3/4 for two mana — above-rate stats that come with a real cost: it deals 2 damage to you on each of your upkeeps if it didn't attack that turn. The body is legitimate, but the self-damage clause means you're either committing to attacking every turn or running a slow clock against yourself.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Erg Raiders is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker. In Pauper it's the most relevant home — a 3/4 for two is above the format's typical size floor, and aggressive black decks can often fulfill the attack requirement to dodge the upkeep penalty entirely. In Legacy and Vintage the competition at two mana is so deep that Erg Raiders never sees play. In Commander the self-damage clause is a liability at a 40-life table where threatening individual players is already difficult, and there are simply better two-drop threats available.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.03 bulk tier
At $0.03, Erg Raiders is deep bulk — you'll find it in a commons box before you'd think to order it. That price is stable by default: there's no demand driver that would move a card this narrow, so it neither appreciates nor disappears.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.