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Golgari Brownscale

Creature — Lizard

When this card is put into your hand from your graveyard, you gain 2 life.
Dredge 2 (If you would draw a card, you may mill two cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)

CMC
3
Mana cost
{1}{G}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
common
Set
Ultimate Masters
Price
$0.23
EDHREC rank
#17461
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Golgari Brownscale card art
Golgari Brownscale gives you a repeatable two life on every dredge, turning life-payment engines like Greed from liabilities into self-sustaining loops. The cost is a 2/2 body for three mana that does nothing if you're not dredging — outside that context, it's a blank.

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 legal
oathbreaker legal

Golgari Brownscale is a niche card in every format it's legal in, and the niche is always the same: dredge. In Commander it earns a slot in graveyard-value builds where repeated dredging fuels engines and the life drain from black's draw spells would otherwise add up — here it's legitimate recurring life gain that costs no mana once it's in the yard. In Pauper it sees fringe play in dredge-adjacent self-mill shells where common-slot life gain is scarce. Legacy and Vintage have access to faster, more broken dredge strategies where Golgari Brownscale rarely makes the cut over higher-impact dredge cards.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.23 bulk tier

At $0.23, Golgari Brownscale sits firmly in bulk territory — pick it up in any common box without a second thought. Its price is stable because demand is narrow; this isn't a card that spikes.

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