Nantuko Tracer
Creature — Insect Druid
When this creature enters, you may put target card from a graveyard on the bottom of its owner's library.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Judgment
- Price
- $0.12
- EDHREC rank
- #26018
Nantuko Tracer puts a card from your graveyard back on top of your library — no mana required, just sacrifice a land you control. That's a meaningful effect for one green mana and a 1/1 body, but the land sacrifice cost is real enough that you only run it in decks that actively want lands in the graveyard or have ways to abuse the recursion.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Nantuko Tracer earns a slot in landfall or graveyard-matters decks that need cheap, repeatable ways to recycle key cards — it's not a staple, but it fills a specific role at negligible cost. In Pauper, the common restriction makes every efficient one-drop worth evaluating, and the land-sacrifice clause pairs naturally with Golgari self-mill shells that have already filled the bin. Legacy and Vintage are too fast and too powerful for a 1/1 with a conditional graveyard shuffle to matter. Oathbreaker mirrors Commander in practice — the smaller deck size makes the recursion slightly more reliable, which nudges Nantuko Tracer up a tier in the right shell.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.12 bulk tier
At $0.12, Nantuko Tracer is deep bulk — a throw-in card you pick up without thinking about price. It holds that floor comfortably; there's no pressure driving it up, and no reason it should drop further.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.