Loxodon Eavesdropper
Creature — Elephant Detective
When this creature enters, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
Whenever you draw your second card each turn, this creature gets +1/+1 and gains vigilance until end of turn.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Murders at Karlov Manor
- Price
- $0.04
- EDHREC rank
- #23052
Loxodon Eavesdropper puts a +1/+1 counter on itself whenever an opponent looks at the top card of their library — a trigger condition so narrow it will fire a handful of times across an entire game. Five mana for a 3/3 with no guaranteed payoff is not a rate that earns a slot in any serious list.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Loxodon Eavesdropper is legal everywhere but relevant nowhere. In Commander, where scry effects and top-deck manipulation are common, the trigger fires more often than in other formats — but 'more often' still translates to a marginal stat boost on a vanilla-sized body, which doesn't move games. In Pauper it's outclassed by commons that actually advance a board state at cheaper rates. In every 60-card format the card simply doesn't exist competitively; no archetype wants a five-mana 3/3 whose growth depends on opponent behavior.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.04 bulk tier
At $0.04, Loxodon Eavesdropper is deep bulk — the kind of card that ends up in a common box at a LGS and stays there. Bulk commons and uncommons at this price point hold no meaningful value and won't appreciate without a dramatic, unlikely rules change to what 'looking at the top card' encompasses.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.