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Greedy Freebooter

Creature — Human Pirate

When this creature dies, scry 1 and create a Treasure token. (To scry 1, look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom. A Treasure token is an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

CMC
1
Mana cost
{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
common
Set
The Lost Caverns of Ixalan
Price
$0.37
EDHREC rank
#2344
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Greedy Freebooter card art
Greedy Freebooter enters the battlefield and immediately drains each opponent for one life per Treasure you control, then leaves a Treasure behind when it dies — that's front-loaded value with a built-in rebate. The engine it slots into most naturally is Chthonian Nightmare recursion loops or the Francisco, Fowl Marauder // Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator Treasure-storm shell, where repeated drain triggers close games without ever needing combat.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Francisco, Fowl MarauderMalcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator

Francisco, Fowl Marauder // Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator

69.0% of decks · synergy 0.68

Francisco, Fowl Marauder // Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator generates Treasures at a rate that turns every Greedy Freebooter entry trigger into a meaningful drain, and the Pirate type-line means Malcolm fuels the mana needed to keep bouncing or reanimating it.

02
Dargo, the ShipwreckerTymna the Weaver

Dargo, the Shipwrecker // Tymna the Weaver

63.1% of decks · synergy 0.62

Dargo, the Shipwrecker // Tymna the Weaver sacrifices Treasures to reduce Dargo's cost, and Greedy Freebooter produces exactly the Treasure Dargo needs while draining the table on the way in — the two cards feed each other naturally.

03
Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker

Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker

64.6% of decks · synergy 0.59

Greedy Freebooter has one power, so Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker returns it from the graveyard at end of turn, setting up a loop where the drain trigger fires every time it re-enters — the Treasure it leaves on death also fuels further sacrifices to keep the chain moving.

04
Evereth, Viceroy of Plunder

Evereth, Viceroy of Plunder

54.4% of decks · synergy 0.50

Evereth, Viceroy of Plunder rewards controlling Treasures and artifacts broadly, and Greedy Freebooter both drains on entry and generates a Treasure on death, keeping the artifact count high for Evereth's payoffs.

05
The Balrog, Durin's Bane

The Balrog, Durin's Bane

40.5% of decks · synergy 0.36

The Balrog, Durin's Bane sacrifices creatures to power its own attack triggers, and Greedy Freebooter is a willing sacrifice target that leaves a Treasure behind — converting The Balrog's fodder demand into mana and life drain simultaneously.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard legal
vintage legal
pauper legal
oathbreaker legal

Greedy Freebooter is legal across every major format, but it earns its keep almost exclusively in Commander. In 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer the drain is too slow and the body too small to compete at those power levels, and Standard has faster, more focused payoffs for Treasure synergies. Pauper is where it could theoretically see fringe play if a Treasure-sacrifice loop emerges at common, but it hasn't broken through there yet. Commander is the clear home: the multiplayer drain scales with opponents, the enter-the-battlefield trigger stacks with Treasure generation, and recursive sacrifice loops — the kind that black Commander decks are built around — turn a single copy into a repeatable win condition.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.37 bulk tier

At $0.37, Greedy Freebooter sits firmly in bulk territory, which is accurate for a card that sees narrow but real play in specific Commander shells. Bulk rares with genuine combo applications tend to hold or tick up slightly as the relevant archetypes get new support, so picking up copies now costs almost nothing.

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