Pileated Provisioner
Creature — Bird Scout
Flying
When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control without flying.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Bloomburrow
- Price
- $0.10
- EDHREC rank
- #17677
Pileated Provisioner enters and produces a Food token, then doubles as a sacrifice outlet that converts any Food into a mana of any color — that's ramp, life gain, and fixing stapled to a single two-mana body. The cost is that you need a steady Food supply to keep the engine running; without it, you have a 2/2 that made one snack.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Pileated Provisioner earns its slot, specifically in Food-matters shells and aristocrats decks that want incidental life gain and mana fixing on a low-cost creature. In Constructed formats like Standard, Modern, and Pioneer, it competes in dedicated Food strategies where the self-contained token generation makes it a reasonable two-drop, though it rarely dominates any of those lists. Pauper is the format where a two-mana body that produces a resource on entry gets the most scrutiny — it's playable but not a format pillar. Legacy and Vintage have no interest in it.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.10 bulk tier
At $0.10, Pileated Provisioner is pure bulk — you're paying almost nothing for genuine utility in the right shell. Bulk commons with narrow synergy homes tend to stay at this price floor indefinitely, so there's no timing consideration; just pick up copies when you need them.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.