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Ragamuffin Raptor

Creature — Dinosaur

When this creature enters, return up to one target creature or Food card from your graveyard to your hand.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{4}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
common
Set
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Price
$0.07
EDHREC rank
#22577
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Ragamuffin Raptor card art
Ragamuffin Raptor puts a free 3/3 Dinosaur token on the board every time you flicker it, and Escape Protocol turns every cycled card into a flicker trigger — that's a token engine that runs on card draw. The ask is minimal; the payoff in the right shell is not.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard legal
vintage legal
pauper legal
oathbreaker legal

Ragamuffin Raptor is a Commander card through and through — the flicker synergies and token accumulation it enables need the long game that 100-card singleton provides. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer it's simply too slow and too easy to ignore at three mana for no immediate board impact. Pauper is where it could theoretically see fringe play in a dedicated blink shell, but the format moves faster than a 3/3 token per flicker can keep up with. Legacy and Vintage don't care. Stick to Commander.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.07 bulk tier

At $0.07, Ragamuffin Raptor is pure bulk — the kind of card you pull from a common box without thinking twice. Bulk rares with niche combo potential rarely climb unless a deck archetype breaks out, so treat this as a free pickup and nothing more.

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