Old Stickfingers
Legendary Creature — Horror
When you cast this spell, reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal X creature cards. Put all creature cards revealed this way into your graveyard, then put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Old Stickfingers's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creature cards in your graveyard.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BG
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Innistrad: Midnight Hunt
- Price
- $0.27
- EDHREC rank
- #3670
Old Stickfingers mills creatures equal to its own power directly into your graveyard — the bigger you cast it, the more fuel you dump in one shot. That self-scaling ETB is why it slots into Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord lists as both a graveyard filler and an immediate sacrifice target with relevant power.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
Old Stickfingers does two things Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord wants simultaneously: it arrives as a large creature Jarad can sacrifice for a lethal drain, and it loads the graveyard with creatures to pump Jarad's own power beforehand.
Winter, Cynical Opportunist
Winter, Cynical Opportunist cares about creatures entering and leaving the graveyard, and Old Stickfingers can dump a half-dozen bodies in one cast — that's immediate fodder for exploit triggers and reanimation payoffs.
Coram, the Undertaker
Old Stickfingers mills the top of your library into the graveyard in bulk, giving Coram, the Undertaker fresh cards to cast from the bin the same turn it resolves.
Grist, Voracious Larva
Old Stickfingers mills creatures straight into the graveyard, and Grist, Voracious Larva can immediately convert those bodies into mill and life-loss triggers — the bigger the cast, the bigger the payoff.
Kathril, Aspect Warper
Old Stickfingers pre-loads the graveyard with keyword-bearing creatures before Kathril, Aspect Warper ever hits the battlefield, which directly translates into more counters distributed on the turn Kathril enters.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is the natural home for Old Stickfingers — the X cost scales with however much mana a graveyard deck can produce late-game, and 100-card singleton lists give it a wide pool of creatures to mill. In Modern and Pioneer it's legal but competes with faster, more focused graveyard enablers that don't require significant mana investment to do meaningful work. Legacy and Vintage have the mana density to cast it for large X values, but those formats demand immediate board impact, and Old Stickfingers asks you to wait a turn to cash in. Oathbreaker is the sleeper fit — as a signature spell it mills on demand, repeatable whenever you have mana open.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.27 bulk tier
At $0.27, Old Stickfingers sits firmly in bulk territory despite meaningful inclusion across thousands of Commander decks. That price is unlikely to climb — it sees no competitive-format demand, and reprint risk in any future Golgari-themed product would keep it anchored near the floor.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
- Winter, Cynical Opportunist
- Coram, the Undertaker
- Grist, Voracious Larva
- Kathril, Aspect Warper
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.