Moriok Scavenger
Creature — Human Rogue
When this creature enters, you may return target artifact creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Mirrodin
- Price
- $0.03
- EDHREC rank
- #28959
Moriok Scavenger returns a creature from your graveyard to your hand when it enters — a real effect, but stapled to a 3/2 body for five mana that does nothing else. That rate is too slow for any format with better recursion options available at lower costs.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Moriok Scavenger is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but sees virtually no play outside Pauper, where the card pool for recursion is shallow enough that a five-mana 3/2 with an ETB might occasionally make the cut. In Commander, the effect is real but the rate is not — Sun Titan, Eternal Witness, and a dozen other options do more for the same or less mana. Legacy and Vintage ignore Moriok Scavenger entirely; those formats move too fast for a five-drop with no immediate board impact.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.03 bulk tier
At $0.03, Moriok Scavenger is deep bulk — floor pricing for cards with near-zero demand. That price is stable in the sense that it can't really fall further, not because the card holds value.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.