Korozda Monitor
Creature — Lizard
Trample
Scavenge 
(, Exile this card from your graveyard: Put a number of +1/+1 counters equal to this card's power on target creature. Scavenge only as a sorcery.)
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Return to Ravnica
- Price
- $0.08
- EDHREC rank
- #28768
Korozda Monitor is a six-mana 4/4 with trample and a Landfall trigger that puts a +1/+1 counter on it — functional, but unexciting for the cost. The stats and the effect are both a full turn behind where green wants to be at six mana.
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 |
Korozda Monitor sees its best daylight in Pauper, where the common card pool thins out and a trampling threat with incremental growth is genuinely harder to replace. In Commander, six mana for a 4/4 with upside is a low bar — green has Rampaging Baloths and Avenger of Zendikar doing far more at the same price point, so Korozda Monitor rarely makes the cut outside of strict budget builds. Across Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer it's too slow and too small to compete with the creatures those formats demand. At common in Pauper it's the most credible version of itself.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.08 bulk tier
At $0.08, Korozda Monitor is deep bulk — the kind of card that shows up in a draft chaff box. Nothing in its demand profile suggests that changes.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.