Midnight Scavengers
Creature — Human Rogue
When this creature enters, you may return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to your hand.
(Melds with Graf Rats.)
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Innistrad Remastered
- Price
- $0.17
- EDHREC rank
- #18010
Midnight Scavengers is a five-mana 3/3 that returns a creature with mana value three or less from your graveyard to your hand — a reasonable rate in graveyard-focused decks that can loop cheap creatures repeatedly. The cost is real: five mana for a body this small is only acceptable if the recursion trigger fires on a creature worth recurring.
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 |
Midnight Scavengers is bulk-bin material in every constructed format — five mana is too much for a 3/3 in Legacy, Modern, or Pioneer, where graveyard recursion at that price tag demands a game-ending payoff. Pauper is its most plausible competitive home, where card-efficient commons carry more weight and recursion loops on cheap creatures can generate real value. In Commander, Midnight Scavengers occupies a narrow niche: aristocrats or sacrifice engines that churn through small creatures and need redundant recursion at common rarity, though most powered builds will find Eternal Witness or Karmic Guide doing more work for comparable mana.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.17 bulk tier
At $0.17, Midnight Scavengers is deep bulk — a card you pick up in a common box without thinking twice. It won't appreciate; the effect isn't scarce enough to drive demand, and better recursion options exist at every price point above zero.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.