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Osteomancer Adept

Creature — Squirrel Warlock

Deathtouch
{T}: Until end of turn, you may cast creature spells from your graveyard by foraging in addition to paying their other costs. If you cast a spell this way, that creature enters with a finality counter on it. (To forage, exile three cards from your graveyard or sacrifice a Food. If a creature with a finality counter on it would die, exile it instead.)

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
rare
Set
Bloomburrow Promos
Price
$0.68
EDHREC rank
#5678
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Osteomancer Adept card art
Osteomancer Adept turns each token you make into a free Insect, stacking board presence with every trigger — the question is whether a three-mana 1/1 body earns that slot. In dedicated token shells it absolutely does; outside them, Lord of the Forsaken and Camellia, the Seedmiser are the commanders who make it sing, and without that scaffolding it's an overcosted do-nothing.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Camellia, the Seedmiser

Camellia, the Seedmiser

67.4% of decks · synergy 0.62

Camellia, the Seedmiser draws a card whenever you make a token, and Osteomancer Adept doubles every token trigger into an Insect as well, meaning each token creation event nets you a card and a free body simultaneously — that's an engine, not just a synergy.

02
Hazel of the Rootbloom

Hazel of the Rootbloom

32.0% of decks · synergy 0.27

Hazel of the Rootbloom copies activated and triggered abilities on a schedule, and Osteomancer Adept's Insect-making trigger is exactly the kind of ability Hazel wants to double, letting a single token creation event cascade into a meaningful board state.

03
Ygra, Eater of All

Ygra, Eater of All

22.4% of decks · synergy 0.17

Ygra, Eater of All turns all Food tokens into creatures, and Osteomancer Adept provides a steady stream of free Insects alongside whatever Food you're generating — more bodies means more fodder for Ygra's sacrifice-based gameplan.

04
Chatterfang, Squirrel General

Chatterfang, Squirrel General

17.5% of decks · synergy 0.13

Chatterfang, Squirrel General already copies every token you make into a Squirrel, and Osteomancer Adept adds an Insect on top of that, so a single token creation event floods the board three-wide and fuels Chatterfang's sacrifice outlet for -1/-1 counters.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Osteomancer Adept is legal everywhere except Pauper, but Commander is the only format where it sees meaningful play. In 60-card formats the three-mana investment for a 1/1 that conditionally makes 1/1s is far too slow — token payoffs in Modern and Pioneer run cheaper and more reliably. Commander's singleton structure, longer game length, and token-centric commanders are what make Osteomancer Adept worth sleeving; in that context, the Insect triggers compound quickly over a full game and the body is incidental.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

1 decks
Lord of the ForsakenOsteomancer AdeptPriest of GixZulaport Cutthroat

Lord of the ForsakenOsteomancer AdeptPriest of GixZulaport Cutthroat

Infinite self-mill; Near-infinite lifeloss; Near-infinite lifegain triggers; Near-infinite ETB; Near-infinite storm count; Near-infinite LTB; Near-infinite death triggers; Near-infinite sacrifice triggers

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Price Context

Current price

$0.68 bulk tier

At $0.68, Osteomancer Adept is firmly bulk — no barrier to picking up a copy if the deck calls for it. Bulk rares that see concentrated Commander play in niche archetypes like this tend to stay cheap, so there's no urgency, but there's also no reason to delay.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.