Plague Reaver
Creature — Beast
At the beginning of your end step, sacrifice each other creature you control.
Discard two cards, Sacrifice this creature: Choose target opponent. Return this creature to the battlefield under that player's control at the beginning of their next upkeep.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Magic Online Promos
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #7758
Plague Reaver hits the board as a 7/6 trampler for three mana — one of the most absurd rate creatures ever printed — and the cost is that each of your end steps, every opponent sacrifices all their creatures or hands the Reaver back to someone else. In a dedicated donation deck built around Blim, Comedic Genius, that downside becomes the entire point.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Blim, Comedic Genius
Blim, Comedic Genius exists to give opponents cursed gifts, and Plague Reaver is the most cursed gift available — once you donate it, your opponent either obliterates their own board every turn or passes the bomb around the table like a hot potato, triggering Blim's drain ability every time it changes hands.
Jon Irenicus, Shattered One
Jon Irenicus, Shattered One donates creatures to opponents with the intent of weaponizing their drawbacks, and Plague Reaver is among the highest-upside targets — gifting it forces the recipient to sacrifice their entire board at end of step or keep cycling the problem to another player.
Abigale, Eloquent First-Year
Abigale, Eloquent First-Year rewards donating creatures with significant power, and Plague Reaver's 7/6 body means Abigale triggers are as large as they get while the end-step sacrifice clause ensures the recipient suffers for holding it.
The Beamtown Bullies
The Beamtown Bullies pitch creatures from graveyards directly onto opponents' battlefields, and Plague Reaver reanimated under an opponent's control immediately starts demanding they sacrifice their board — a punishment that costs the Bullies player nothing.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Plague Reaver is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but Commander is the only format where it sees meaningful play. In Legacy and Vintage, a three-mana creature with a symmetry-destroying downside has no competitive home — those formats want interaction and pressure on a faster axis. Commander is where Plague Reaver thrives: multiplayer games mean the end-step trigger becomes a political weapon, and donation commanders turn the drawback into a one-sided board wipe on a loop. In Oathbreaker it's legal but niche, useful only in the same donation shells that Commander enables.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
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Pricing data for Plague Reaver isn't currently available in our feed — check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the current market rate. Given its near-exclusive home in donation Commander builds, demand is real but narrow, so it tends to sit in a modest range rather than spiking like a universal staple.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.