Rowdy Crew

Creature — Human Pirate

Trample
When this creature enters, draw three cards, then discard two cards at random. If two cards that share a card type are discarded this way, put two +1/+1 counters on this creature.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{2}{R}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
mythic
Set
Ixalan
Price
$0.33
EDHREC rank
#22376
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Rowdy Crew card art
Rowdy Crew enters as a 3/3 that draws three cards and discards two at random — net one card, with trample and haste stapled on if you discard two creatures. The randomness on the discard is the catch, and in most shells it makes Rowdy Crew a worse option than any looting effect that lets you choose what to pitch.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander
legacy
modern
pioneer
standard
vintage
pauper
oathbreaker

Rowdy Crew is a Commander card — the randomness on a four-mana 3/3 is simply too punishing for the focused, redundancy-driven environments of Legacy, Modern, or Pioneer, where it sees effectively zero play. In Commander, the calculus is more forgiving: the card is a Pirate for tribal synergy, replaces itself, and can swing the turn it lands, which clears the baseline floor for a four-drop in a 100-card deck. Outside of graveyard or discard-synergy builds, though, there are cleaner draw-four sources at the same cost, so Rowdy Crew is a role-player rather than a staple even in the format where it belongs.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.33 bulk tier

At $0.33, Rowdy Crew is bulk, and that price is stable — there's no competitive demand pulling it up and no reprint risk pushing it further down. Pick it up freely if the synergy fits; there's no reason to hesitate at this price point.

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