Rescue Leopard
Creature — Cat
Whenever this creature becomes tapped, you may discard a card. If you do, draw a card.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Tarkir: Dragonstorm
- Price
- $0.09
- EDHREC rank
- #18401
Rescue Leopard enters, untaps a creature you control, and replaces itself with a card draw — three lines of text for two mana. The untap effect quietly enables Mind Over Matter loops and any tap-outlet combo that needs a free reset, making this a sleeper inclusion in decks that care about repeated activations.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Rescue Leopard is a Commander card through and through — the untap-plus-draw chassis is too slow and low-impact to compete in Legacy or Vintage, and it lacks the raw power to show up in Modern or Pioneer outside fringe brews. In Standard and Pauper it's technically playable but offers nothing other commons can't do more efficiently. In Commander, any deck built around tap-activated creatures or untap loops wants a hard look at Rescue Leopard: the draw replaces it immediately, and the untap does real work the turn it arrives.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Rescue LeopardMind Over MatterTeferi's Ageless InsightVnwxt, Verbose Host
Infinite self-discard triggers; Infinite draw triggers; Near-infinite card draw
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Rescue LeopardMind Over MatterAlhammarret's ArchiveVnwxt, Verbose Host
Infinite self-discard triggers; Infinite draw triggers; Near-infinite card draw
View on Commander Spellbook ↗Rescue LeopardMind Over MatterAlhammarret's ArchiveTeferi's Ageless Insight
Infinite self-discard triggers; Infinite draw triggers; Near-infinite card draw
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Rescue LeopardMind Over MatterAlhammarret's ArchiveThought Reflection
Infinite self-discard triggers; Infinite draw triggers; Near-infinite card draw
View on Commander Spellbook ↗Rescue LeopardMind Over MatterThought ReflectionVnwxt, Verbose Host
Infinite self-discard triggers; Infinite draw triggers; Near-infinite card draw
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Current price
$0.09 bulk tier
At $0.09, Rescue Leopard sits squarely in bulk territory, which means the barrier to picking up four copies is essentially zero. Given the combo potential, it's the kind of card that quietly doubles in price the moment a popular commander deck starts featuring it — grab them now while they're still priced as filler.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.