Golgari Raiders
Creature — Elf Warrior
Haste
Undergrowth — This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it for each creature card in your graveyard.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Guilds of Ravnica
- Price
- $0.19
- EDHREC rank
- #20985
Golgari Raiders enters as a creature whose power scales directly with the number of creature cards in your graveyard — in any deck that mills itself, sacrifices repeatedly, or fills the bin through normal attrition, it arrives as a legitimately large threat for four mana. The cost is that it does nothing on an empty graveyard and asks you to build around it rather than slotting into any green-black pile.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Golgari Raiders actually belongs — 99-card singleton games naturally accumulate creature-heavy graveyards through combat, sacrifice loops, and self-mill, giving it a reliable floor of eight to twelve power by the mid-game. In competitive non-rotating formats like Legacy and Modern, it has no place: four mana for a vanilla trampler with no immediate board impact is unplayable when those formats end games on turns two and three. Pioneer sits in a similar position — the Pioneer graveyard synergy decks that exist prefer recursive threats with more immediate upside. Oathbreaker follows the same Commander logic on a compressed scale, where the smaller deck size means a thinner graveyard and a weaker floor. Golgari Raiders is a Commander card, full stop.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.19 bulk tier
At $0.19, Golgari Raiders is bulk — the kind of card you pick up as a throw-in or pull from a bulk box without thinking twice. It's unlikely to appreciate meaningfully given its narrow role and the abundance of copies in circulation, but at this price the ask is zero: if it fits the deck, there's no reason not to run it.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.