Renegade Reaper
Creature — Angel Berserker
Flying
When this creature enters, mill four cards. If at least one Angel card is milled this way, you gain 4 life. (To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Kaldheim
- Price
- $0.27
- EDHREC rank
- #11755
Renegade Reaper enters with a 4/3 lifelink body and immediately drains the table by putting an Angel token into play and sacrificing it — that's free life loss for opponents and life gain for you before anyone can respond. The catch is the three-mana cost and the one-time ETB trigger, but in Shilgengar, Sire of Famine decks the whole point is stacking those sacrifice triggers, and Reaper delivers a clean two-for-one on entry.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Shilgengar, Sire of Famine
Shilgengar, Sire of Famine runs on Angel tokens as sacrifice fodder, and Renegade Reaper creates one the moment it enters — giving Shilgengar an immediate body to consume for mana or triggers without spending any additional resources.
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 |
Renegade Reaper is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it hasn't found a home outside Commander — the effect is too slow and low-impact for competitive 60-card formats where three mana needs to win the game, not generate a 1/1 token. In Commander, Renegade Reaper earns its slot almost exclusively in Angel-tribal and aristocrats shells, where the self-sacrificing Angel token does real work as sacrifice fodder or a synergy trigger. Anywhere that isn't explicitly built around that loop, it's just a vanilla 4/3 lifelink that happens to briefly make a token.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.27 bulk tier
At $0.27, Renegade Reaper sits firmly in bulk territory — it's a throw-in card, not a purchase. That price is stable by default; bulk rares rarely spike unless a commander breaks the mechanic wide open, and nothing on the horizon suggests that's imminent.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.