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Famished Foragers

Creature — Vampire

When this creature enters, if an opponent lost life this turn, add {R}{R}{R}.
{2}{R}, Discard a card: Draw a card.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{3}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
common
Set
Innistrad: Midnight Hunt
Price
$0.17
EDHREC rank
#20006
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Famished Foragers card art
Famished Foragers enters as a 3/2, draws you a card, and adds two mana — all stapled to a single triggered ability that fires whenever you lose life. The catch is the five-mana price tag, which limits it to decks that can repeatedly trigger the life-loss condition; in those shells, particularly ones that abuse Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker to copy it multiple times in a turn, the value compounds fast enough to justify the cost.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

In Commander, Famished Foragers slots cleanly into any black-red shell that manufactures life loss as a resource — aristocrats, group slug, and token sacrifice decks all create the density of triggers needed to make five mana feel fair. Outside of Commander, Pauper is its most realistic home: the format's slower clock and abundance of cheap life-loss enablers let it pull real weight without competing against more efficient card advantage engines. Modern and Legacy have little interest — five mana for a conditional draw-and-ramp effect doesn't clear the bar in formats where that slot is occupied by game-ending threats.

Key Combos

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Price Context

Current price

$0.17 bulk tier

At $0.17, Famished Foragers is bulk, and there's no pressure driving that number up. It's a safe pickup for the cost — grab a copy whenever you're ordering anyway, but don't expect the price to move.

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