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Forsaken Miner

Creature — Skeleton Rogue

This creature can't block.
Whenever you commit a crime, you may pay {B}. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. (Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime.)

CMC
1
Mana cost
{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Outlaws of Thunder Junction
Price
$0.94
EDHREC rank
#2477
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Forsaken Miner card art
Forsaken Miner is a recursive sacrifice fodder that pays for itself — spend a black mana to bring it back from the graveyard and you have an endless supply of bodies for engines that demand creatures to sacrifice. The cost is real: you're taxed one mana every time you loop it, so it works best when that sacrifice is generating more value than the mana it takes to recur it, exactly the kind of math Warren Soultrader and Rakdos, the Muscle are built to exploit.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Rakdos, the Muscle

Rakdos, the Muscle

67.6% of decks · synergy 0.64

Rakdos, the Muscle wants a creature to sacrifice on every opponent's turn, and Forsaken Miner is the cleanest answer — spend one black mana, get the Miner back, sacrifice it again, repeat across every turn of the table.

02

Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER

67.4% of decks · synergy 0.59

Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER rewards repeated creature deaths with counters and escalating threats, and Forsaken Miner is one of the cheapest engines for manufacturing those deaths on demand turn after turn.

03
Laughing Jasper Flint

Laughing Jasper Flint

52.8% of decks · synergy 0.50

Laughing Jasper Flint benefits from a steady stream of creatures entering and leaving the battlefield, and Forsaken Miner's self-recurring loop plugs directly into that engine without requiring extra setup.

04
Yawgmoth, Thran Physician

Yawgmoth, Thran Physician

47.5% of decks · synergy 0.39

Yawgmoth, Thran Physician needs creatures to sacrifice for his proliferate-and-draw ability, and Forsaken Miner is one of the few creatures that replenishes itself each turn so Yawgmoth never runs dry.

05
Gisa, the Hellraiser

Gisa, the Hellraiser

37.7% of decks · synergy 0.30

Gisa, the Hellraiser wants fodder in the graveyard and creatures to sacrifice, and Forsaken Miner satisfies both roles — die, recur, die again, each loop feeding Gisa's zombie-generating engine.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

In Commander, Forsaken Miner earns its slot in any black deck that wants a repeatable sacrifice target — the one-mana recur cost is low enough that most black engines generate positive returns on the loop. In competitive formats like Modern and Legacy, it's too slow and too low-impact to see serious play; those formats demand immediate board presence, not a slow attrition loop. Pioneer and Standard are similarly inhospitable — the card only shines when it's part of an established engine, and those environments don't offer the density of sacrifice payoffs Commander does. Forsaken Miner is a Commander card wearing a multiformat legal badge.

Key Combos

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Price Context

Current price

$0.94 bulk tier

At $0.94, Forsaken Miner sits at the high end of bulk — driven up by its role as a near-staple in Rakdos sacrifice shells rather than raw scarcity. It's a reasonable pickup at this price given the number of decks that want it, and it's unlikely to crater further.

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