Sandstalker Moloch
Creature — Lizard
Flash
When this creature enters, if an opponent cast a blue and/or black spell this turn, look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal a permanent card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- March of the Machine
- Price
- $0.08
- EDHREC rank
- #23150
Sandstalker Moloch hits the board as a 4/3 haste for three mana when your opponent has more cards than you — a genuinely threatening rate if the condition is met. The catch is that condition: if hands are equal, you're paying three for a vanilla 4/3 with no enter-the-battlefield effect, which is unplayable in any powered context.
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 |
In Commander, Sandstalker Moloch is at its best in aggressive red strategies where you're emptying your hand fast and opponents are drawing extra cards through wheels or group-hug effects — the four-player table makes it likely someone has more cards than you at any given moment. Outside of Commander, the card sits in legal-but-unplayed territory across Legacy, Vintage, Modern, and Pioneer: formats fast enough that a conditional 4/3 haste for three mana doesn't compete with the threats available at that slot. The floor of a blank 4/3 with no text is simply too low for any competitive 60-card environment.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.08 bulk tier
At $0.08, Sandstalker Moloch is deep bulk — the kind of card you pick up as a throw-in. It's unlikely to appreciate unless a Commander-legal combo or commander that specifically enables the hand-size condition pushes demand, and nothing on the horizon suggests that.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.