Scarred Vinebreeder
Creature — Elf Shaman
, Exile an Elf card from your graveyard: This creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Lorwyn
- Price
- $0.18
- EDHREC rank
- #28854
Scarred Vinebreeder enters as a 1/1 and can grow into a substantial threat by exiling creatures from your graveyard — each one adds a +1/+1 counter, turning a stocked bin into real stats. The cost is card equity: every creature you exile is a resource spent, so it pays off only in decks that treat the graveyard as fuel rather than a long-term asset.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Scarred Vinebreeder slots cleanly into graveyard-centric strategies — aristocrats, self-mill, and token sacrifice loops where the bin fills fast and individual creatures aren't precious. Pauper is where it sees the most competitive pressure, since common-legal graveyard payoffs are scarce and a cheap, scalable body matters more per card slot. Legacy and Vintage have the raw graveyard power to make Scarred Vinebreeder enormous, but those formats have better payoffs and rarely need a creature that demands setup. Oathbreaker follows the same logic as Commander — strong in the right shell, irrelevant outside it.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.18 bulk tier
At $0.18, Scarred Vinebreeder is bulk, and that price is stable — there's no scarcity driving it up and no spike risk on the horizon. It's a zero-friction inclusion for any graveyard deck that wants a cheap, scalable threat without touching the budget.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.