Harbor Bandit
Creature — Human Rogue
This creature gets +1/+1 as long as you control an Island.
: This creature can't be blocked this turn.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BU
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Magic 2013
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #28296
Harbor Bandit is a 3/2 for three mana that becomes unblockable whenever you control an Island — a reasonable evasion condition in any blue-black shell. The floor is a vanilla 3/2, which is unplayable in most formats, so the whole card lives or dies on how reliably you can meet that one-Island threshold.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Harbor Bandit sees essentially no play in Legacy or Vintage, where a three-mana 3/2 with a conditional evasion clause doesn't come close to clearing the power bar. In Modern the situation is the same — evasion creatures at this cost need to do far more than attack unblocked to earn a slot. Commander is the most hospitable environment, specifically in blue-black pirates or theft strategies where Islands are a given and the Bandit's unblockable clause is permanently active, though even there better evasive threats exist at the same cost.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Harbor Bandit is deep bulk — the kind of card that fills a draft common slot and rarely moves. Don't expect the price to budge; there's no competitive demand pulling it upward.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.