Nathan Drake, Treasure Hunter
Legendary Creature — Human Rogue
First strike
You may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast spells you don't own or to activate abilities of permanents you control but don't own.
Whenever Nathan Drake attacks, exile the top card of each player's library. You may cast a spell from among those cards.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BRU
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Secret Lair Drop
- Price
- $3.45
- EDHREC rank
- #15428
Nathan Drake, Treasure Hunter turns every Treasure you crack into a free loot effect, making him a value engine that compounds fast in artifact-heavy shells. The cost is a three-mana 2/2 with no immediate board impact — you're betting on living to the second or third Treasure.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is the natural home for Nathan Drake, Treasure Hunter — Treasure generation is everywhere in the format, from Smothering Tithe to Dockside Extortionist, and he rewards you for doing what those decks already want to do. Legacy and Vintage allow him but the raw card quality threshold in those formats is brutally high, and a three-mana 2/2 dependent on a secondary resource rarely clears it. He's irrelevant in Standard, Pioneer, and Modern, where he's not legal. Oathbreaker is a legitimate option in Treasure-focused builds, though the compressed game length means you need to crack Treasures quickly before the game is decided.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$3.45 cheap tier
At $3.45, Nathan Drake, Treasure Hunter sits in the budget-staple tier — cheap enough to slot in without deliberation, priced above bulk because the demand is real. It's a card with a narrow home but genuine power in that home, so the price is unlikely to crater unless Treasure support falls out of favor.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.