Pillardrop Warden
Creature — Spirit Dwarf
Reach
, 
, Sacrifice this creature: Return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only as a sorcery.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Strixhaven: School of Mages
- Price
- $0.07
- EDHREC rank
- #19698
Pillardrop Warden trades a tap and a sacrifice for a free foretell — card selection without card disadvantage, stapled to a 0/4 body that can take a hit. It's a niche piece that earns its slot in foretell-matters builds and nowhere else.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Pillardrop Warden is a Pauper-legal common, and that's the format most likely to actually want it — foretell synergies at common rarity are scarce enough that the Warden's filtering effect carries real weight in the right shell. In Commander, it's a fringe inclusion: foretell is a narrow mechanic and the Warden asks you to sacrifice it for a single card's worth of smoothing, which is a steep ask in a 100-card singleton format. Competitive 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer have faster, more efficient options for graveyard and card-selection effects, so Pillardrop Warden doesn't make the cut there.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.07 bulk tier
At $0.07, Pillardrop Warden is pure bulk — you're picking this up in a commons box, not a singles order. There's no meaningful price floor to defend here; it holds its slot in a deck because it does a job, not because it holds value.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.