Hoarding Recluse
Creature — Spider
Reach, deathtouch
When this creature dies, put up to one other target card from a graveyard on the bottom of its owner's library.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The Brothers' War
- Price
- $0.17
- EDHREC rank
- #15337
Hoarding Recluse enters with a treasure token and a deathtouch body — two meaningful things on one card for three mana. It's a solid role-player in artifact and sacrifice strategies, not a powerhouse, but it overperforms its price tag.
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, Hoarding Recluse earns its slot in Treasure-matters, artifact, and sacrifice decks, where the token pulls double duty as ramp and fodder. Pauper is its best competitive home — deathtouch plus a free artifact at common is real value in a format that rewards incremental advantage. Modern, Pioneer, Legacy, and Vintage have enough three-mana competition that Hoarding Recluse rarely makes the cut outside of budget or themed builds. Oathbreaker mirrors Commander in that synergy-driven pods reward it more than raw power pods do.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.17 bulk tier
At $0.17, Hoarding Recluse is pure bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not scarcity. There's no realistic upward pressure here unless a future Commander precon or mechanic pushes Treasure tokens into broken territory, so treat it as a cheap pickup and nothing more.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.