Midnight Mangler
Artifact — Vehicle
During turns other than yours, this Vehicle is an artifact creature.
Crew 2 (Tap any number of creatures you control with total power 2 or more: This Vehicle becomes an artifact creature until end of turn.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Aetherdrift
- Price
- $0.11
- EDHREC rank
- #16318
Midnight Mangler is a three-mana 2/2 with menace and deathtouch — a combination that makes it nearly unblockable in practice, since opponents need two creatures and lose both. The cost is raw stats: three mana for a 2/2 is below the curve, and it does nothing the turn it enters.
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 |
In Commander, Midnight Mangler occupies the low end of the deathtouch-menace creature pool — playable in aristocrats or voltron shells that want incidental bodies, but rarely a priority inclusion when Hooded Blightfang and Nighthawk Scavenger exist at similar costs with more upside. In Pauper, the menace-deathtouch pairing is genuinely scarce at common, which is the card's best argument for inclusion in aggressive black shells. Across Modern, Pioneer, and Legacy, Midnight Mangler doesn't clear the power threshold — those formats move too fast for a vanilla-statted threat with no enters-the-battlefield effect.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.11 bulk tier
At $0.11, Midnight Mangler is deep bulk — the price of a card that sees minimal competitive demand across every format it's legal in. Don't expect movement; it holds this floor because casual players occasionally want the deathtouch-menace keyword combination on a cheap body, not because any meta is calling for it.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.