Plunder
Sorcery
Destroy target artifact or land.
Suspend 4—
(Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay and exile it with four time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.)
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Time Spiral
- Price
- $0.12
- EDHREC rank
- #23034
Plunder trades two artifacts or a land plus an artifact to draw two cards — a clean two-for-two that replaces itself and a permanent. At five mana it's too slow for most midrange or tempo shells, but in artifact-heavy Commander decks that routinely sacrifice their own permanents anyway, the cost is near-zero.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Plunder is a Commander card through and through — the format's slower pace and abundance of artifact tokens make the sacrifice cost trivially easy to meet. In Pauper it's technically legal and occasionally appears in commons-only artifact builds that need card draw at any price. Legacy, Modern, and Vintage have no interest in a five-mana sorcery that draws two; those formats bury it.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.12 bulk tier
At $0.12, Plunder is deep bulk — grab a copy out of any common box and never think about it again. There's no demand driver that moves a card like this, so that price is essentially a floor.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.