Ravenous Harpy
Creature — Harpy
Flying
, Sacrifice another creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Core Set 2019
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #27327
Ravenous Harpy turns a sacrifice outlet into a repeatable drain engine — pay one mana and sacrifice a creature to grow it and drain an opponent for 1, stacking quickly in token or aristocrats shells. The activation cost keeps it honest, but in any deck that generates disposable bodies, the incremental life swing adds up fast.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Ravenous Harpy is a Commander card through and through — the aristocrats and token strategies that make it shine are most common in 100-card singleton, where a dedicated sacrifice payoff on a flying body fills a specific role. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern or Pioneer it's too slow and too low-impact against the threats those formats demand, and Legacy offers far more efficient options at every point on the curve. Oathbreaker can support it in the right shell, but Commander is where Ravenous Harpy finds its best audience.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Ravenous Harpy is pure bulk — you're picking it up as an incidental inclusion, not a purchase you'll think twice about. Bulk rares with narrow applications rarely climb unless a new commander breaks them wide open, so treat it as a throw-in and move on.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.