Grave Robbers
Creature — Human Rogue
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: Exile target artifact card from a graveyard. You gain 2 life.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- The Dark
- Price
- $5.65
- EDHREC rank
- #30292
Grave Robbers trades mana for artifact exile out of graveyards and converts each hit into a black mana, making it a repeatable hate piece that pays for itself in artifact-heavy metas. Three mana to get online and one per activation is efficient enough that it earns a slot wherever graveyard artifacts are a real problem.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Grave Robbers earns its keep — four-player games mean three graveyards full of artifact targets, and the mana generation compounds quickly in long games against artifact-heavy strategies. Legacy and Vintage both have legal printings, but neither format gives Grave Robbers a serious role: artifact removal in those formats needs to be faster and more permanent than a three-mana tap ability. Oathbreaker is legal and functions similarly to Commander, though the smaller card pool and faster pace mean the three-mana setup cost is harder to justify unless artifacts are a recurring threat in your pod.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
Scavenger Folk does the same exile-an-artifact work for a single green mana but lacks the black mana generation and doesn't reach graveyards as cleanly across multiple turns. Phyrexian Furnace and Nihil Spellbomb are the closest direct substitutes for graveyard artifact hate at near-zero cost, though neither generates mana and both are one-shot rather than repeatable — Grave Robbers outclasses them in any game that goes long.
Price Context
Current price
$5.65 mid tier
At $5.65, Grave Robbers sits in mid-tier pricing for a card with a narrow, meta-dependent role. It holds that price largely on scarcity rather than ubiquity — if artifact-graveyard synergies stop being a defining pod threat, the demand propping up that number goes with them.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.