Meria's Outrider
Creature — Elf Archer
Reach
Domain — When this creature enters, it deals damage to each opponent equal to the number of basic land types among lands you control.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $0.10
- EDHREC rank
- #24019
Meria's Outrider is a 4/3 trample for four mana that gets an additional +1/+1 counter whenever an artifact enters the battlefield under your control — solid stats with a payoff that compounds fast in the right shell. It's a role-player, not a headliner, and if you're not already generating artifact tokens or recurring cheap artifacts, skip it.
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 |
Meria's Outrider is legal in Commander, Modern, Pioneer, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but the only format where it's likely to see real play is Pauper, where a 4/3 trample for four with an artifacts-matter upside clears a reasonable bar. In Commander it belongs in dedicated artifact-token decks — think Meria, Sacred Thorn or Breya, Etherium Shaper builds that produce a flood of small artifacts every turn — where the counters add up meaningfully. In Modern or Pioneer it doesn't clear the competition; four mana for a creature that needs support to grow is too slow against formats that punish setup costs.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.10 bulk tier
At $0.10, Meria's Outrider is deep bulk — the kind of card you pull from a dollar bin without thinking twice. It won't hold or gain value, but at this price point that's irrelevant: if it fits your deck, the cost of entry is trivial.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.