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Extractor Demon

Creature — Demon

Flying
Whenever another creature leaves the battlefield, you may have target player mill two cards.
Unearth {2}{B} ({2}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

CMC
6
Mana cost
{4}{B}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
rare
Set
Commander Anthology Volume II
Price
$0.27
EDHREC rank
#15984
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Extractor Demon card art
Extractor Demon mills two cards from any opponent whenever another creature leaves the battlefield — a passive, repeatable drain that scales with every sacrifice, removal spell, and board wipe at the table. The cost is a clunky six mana with double black, but commanders like Tormod, the Desecrator turn every one of those mill triggers into a free Zombie, making that rate suddenly look fine.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Extractor Demon is a Commander card through and through — its trigger rewards the multi-opponent, creature-dense environment where someone's board is always changing. In Legacy and Vintage it's far too slow and too narrow; dedicated mill strategies in those formats operate at a completely different speed and wouldn't touch a six-drop with this conditional upside. Modern has faster, more focused mill payoffs that also don't need the demon's specific trigger. Commander is where Extractor Demon earns its slot, particularly in graveyard-matters or aristocrats shells where creature deaths are a resource rather than a setback.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.27 bulk tier

At $0.27, Extractor Demon is deep bulk — easy to acquire and easy to cut without remorse if the deck evolves. The price is unlikely to move unless a new commander pushes passive mill into a competitive Commander archetype, so treat it as a disposable role-player rather than a spec.

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