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Ethereal Forager

Creature — Elemental Whale

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.)
Flying
Whenever this creature attacks, you may return an instant or sorcery card exiled with this creature to its owner's hand.

CMC
6
Mana cost
{4}{U}{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
rare
Set
Commander 2020
Price
$0.30
EDHREC rank
#18206
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Ethereal Forager card art
Ethereal Forager enters as a massive flier whose power and toughness scale with the instants and sorceries in your graveyard, then refuels your hand by exiling those same cards on attack — the bigger it gets, the more cards you draw. The Delve cost makes it nearly free in any deck that's been slinging spells, and commanders like Chulane, Teller of Tales that bounce and replay it let you harvest that draw trigger repeatedly.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Ethereal Forager is a Commander card — full stop. In 100-card singleton, graveyards fill naturally over a long game, Delve costs become trivial, and the attack trigger generates real card advantage in a format where running out of gas is a genuine threat. Legacy and Vintage are technically legal homes, but dedicated graveyard and Delve strategies in those formats have faster, more focused payoffs and no room for a six-mana creature with no immediate board impact. Oathbreaker shares Commander's long-game dynamics but the 20-life clock means Ethereal Forager often arrives too late to matter.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.30 bulk tier

At $0.30, Ethereal Forager sits firmly in bulk territory — pick it out of any common box or dollar bin without a second thought. The price is unlikely to move; it's a niche Commander card with a narrow home, not a crossover staple.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.