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Extraction Specialist

Creature — Human Rogue

Lifelink
When this creature enters, return target creature card with mana value 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature can't attack or block for as long as you control this creature.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
rare
Set
Streets of New Capenna Promos
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#13081
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Extraction Specialist card art
Extraction Specialist returns a creature with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield and grants it lifelink until end of turn — all on a 3/2 body for three mana. The cost is real: you can't run it in decks stuffed with expensive threats, but pair it with Saffi Eriksdotter and you have a self-contained loop that laughs at single-target removal.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where Extraction Specialist earns its slot, specifically in creature-based combo and aristocrats builds that live in the one-to-three mana-value range. The lifelink rider is incidental value in most games, but the repeatable recursion on a creature body is exactly what sacrifice-loop engines want. In Modern and Pioneer it competes with a crowded recursion market and rarely makes the cut outside fringe combo shells. Legacy has faster, more broken lines and no reason to play this over established options. Oathbreaker mirrors the Commander dynamic — valid if your signature spell supports an aggressive low-curve creature strategy.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

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Price data isn't available for Extraction Specialist right now, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for current market price before buying. Given its narrow but real combo applications in Commander, it tends to sit in the budget-to-mid range — the kind of card worth grabbing as a four-of if the price is right rather than waiting on singles.

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