Gorging Vulture
Creature — Bird
Flying
When this creature enters, mill four cards. You gain 1 life for each creature card milled this way. (To mill four cards, put the top four cards of your library into your graveyard.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Jumpstart 2022
- Price
- $0.19
- EDHREC rank
- #14880
Gorging Vulture mills four cards on entry and gains you life for each creature it hits — that's a free self-mill engine stapled to a two-mana body. In any graveyard deck that wants to fill its bin fast, this is a clean inclusion with no setup required.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Gorging Vulture is a role-player in black-based graveyard decks — it costs two mana, asks nothing of you, and mills up to four cards with immediate life gain attached. Pauper is where it has seen the most competitive attention, slotting into Dimir and Mono-Black graveyard strategies that want cheap, repeatable bin-filling at common rarity. In Modern and Pioneer, the card simply doesn't clear the bar — those formats have access to far more efficient self-mill at the same cost, and a 2/2 body with no evasion doesn't compensate. Legacy and Vintage are non-starters for the same reason. Stick to Commander and Pauper, where the combination of low cost, immediate impact, and life gain actually registers.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.19 bulk tier
At $0.19, Gorging Vulture is deep bulk — grab a playset for under a dollar without thinking twice. It's a common with a narrow enough home that the price isn't going anywhere, but that's irrelevant when the ask is this low.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.