Loathsome Curator
Creature — Gorgon Wizard
Exploit (When this creature enters, you may sacrifice a creature.)
Menace
When this creature exploits a creature, destroy target creature you don't control with mana value 3 or less.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Modern Horizons 2
- Price
- $0.09
- EDHREC rank
- #22295
Loathsome Curator puts a 4/4 trampling Horror on the battlefield for three mana — the catch is you have to sacrifice it at the beginning of your next upkeep unless you pay an additional three. That escape clause makes it a deliberately temporary threat, best used in decks that want a sacrifice trigger rather than a persistent body.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Loathsome Curator slots into sacrifice-value decks as a cheap, large body that generates a death trigger on a predictable schedule — it's not a staple, but it fills a real role in Golgari or Jund shells that need bodies to feed the machine. In Pauper, the three-mana 4/4 trample profile is legitimately above rate for common creatures, and the upkeep cost is manageable enough that aggro or sacrifice decks could weaponize it. Competitive Legacy and Vintage have no interest — Loathsome Curator is far too slow and conditional for formats where the game is often decided by turn two. Oathbreaker mirrors Commander in relevance: synergy-dependent, playable in the right shell, ignored everywhere else.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.09 bulk tier
At $0.09, Loathsome Curator is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard and shipping, not the card. Bulk commons and uncommons at this price point don't hold or gain value, so pick it up as a throw-in or grab a playset from a bulk bin without a second thought.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.