Noggle Ransacker
Creature — Noggle Rogue
When this creature enters, each player draws two cards, then discards a card at random.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- RU
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Eventide
- Price
- $0.21
- EDHREC rank
- #16939
Noggle Ransacker enters the battlefield and deals 1 damage to each creature and player your opponents control — a sweeper-lite and life-drain stapled to a body, for five mana. Ian Malcolm, Chaotician turns that damage into card draw, which makes the cost immediately worth it.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Ian Malcolm, Chaotician
Ian Malcolm, Chaotician rewards you for dealing damage to opponents, and Noggle Ransacker hits every opponent and every creature they control the moment it lands — a single cast can trigger Ian's ability multiple times and turn the chaos dial up to max draw.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Noggle Ransacker is a Commander-first card. The effect is too slow and too low-impact for Legacy, Modern, or Vintage, where a five-mana sorcery-speed body draws no serious consideration. In Commander, it scales with the number of opponents — three players means three life lost and three creatures pinged before a single attack step — which is exactly the environment where it earns a slot. Outside of decks that explicitly reward damage pings, like Ian Malcolm, Chaotician, it still sees fringe play as a budget mass-ping effect in wheels and chaos builds.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.21 bulk tier
At $0.21, Noggle Ransacker is deep bulk — you'll find it in a common box before you'll pay retail. That price is stable; there's no reprint pressure and no spike trajectory, so what you see is what you get.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.