Moorland Drifter
Creature — Spirit
Delirium — This creature has flying as long as there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Shadows over Innistrad
- Price
- $0.04
- EDHREC rank
- #30023
Moorland Drifter is a 2/2 flying creature for two mana that delves into a 4/4 flier — the ceiling is real, but getting there requires exiling cards from your graveyard, which is a meaningful cost in any deck that wants those cards. It earns a slot only in shells that actively want to shrink their graveyard.
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 |
Moorland Drifter is legal in Commander, Modern, Pioneer, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker. In Pauper it's the most interesting — a 4/4 flier at common is a legitimate clock, and self-mill decks can fuel delve cheaply enough that the transformation is achievable. In Commander, Moorland Drifter competes with too many stronger two-drops and rarely gets the graveyard investment needed to flip profitably in a 100-card singleton context. Modern and Pioneer have faster threats and better delve payoffs, so it doesn't see meaningful play there either.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.04 bulk tier
At $0.04, Moorland Drifter is deep bulk — the kind of card that goes into a sleeve without thought if the deck calls for it. There's no price pressure here in either direction; it will stay at this floor unless a new format or commander pushes delve creatures into relevance.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.