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Sandbender Scavengers

Creature — Human Rogue

Whenever you sacrifice another permanent, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
When this creature dies, you may exile it. When you do, return target creature card with mana value less than or equal to this creature's power from your graveyard to the battlefield.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{W}{B}
Color identity
BW
Rarity
rare
Set
Avatar: The Last Airbender
Price
$0.37
EDHREC rank
#17475
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Sandbender Scavengers card art
Sandbender Scavengers puts a repeatable +1/+1 counter engine on the board the moment it enters — pair it with Animation Module and every counter trigger starts snowballing into Servo tokens and more counters. The cost is that both pieces need to be in play before anything happens, which makes it a synergy card that does nothing in isolation.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

In Commander, Sandbender Scavengers earns a slot in any dedicated +1/+1 counter or artifact token shell — the effect scales with the number of triggers your deck generates, and those decks run plenty. Competitive 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer already have faster, more efficient counter engines, so Sandbender Scavengers rarely clears the bar there. Standard is the one non-Commander format where it can show up if the +1/+1 counter synergies are strong enough in the current card pool to support it. Legacy and Vintage have no interest — the effect is too slow and too dependent on a board state to compete.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.37 bulk tier

At $0.37, Sandbender Scavengers is bulk — easy to pick up as a four-of without budgetary concern. Bulk synergy pieces like this tend to stay flat unless a breakout deck pushes demand, so don't expect movement.

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