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Scavenger's Talent

Enchantment — Class

(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.)
Whenever one or more creatures you control die, create a Food token. This ability triggers only once each turn.
{1}{B}: Level 2
Whenever you sacrifice a permanent, target player mills two cards.
{2}{B}: Level 3
At the beginning of your end step, you may sacrifice three other nonland permanents. If you do, return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a finality counter on it.

CMC
1
Mana cost
{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
rare
Set
Bloomburrow Promos
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#3861
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Scavenger's Talent card art
Scavenger's Talent generates a stream of Food tokens and card advantage off a single enchantment, and the self-mill chapter means it keeps fueling the graveyard even after it's done. Forsaken Miner turns that recurring self-mill into a repeatable engine, and Camellia, the Seedmiser draws a card every time a Food hits the board — together, the three cards form a loop that does real work.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Camellia, the Seedmiser

Camellia, the Seedmiser

59.4% of decks · synergy 0.54

Camellia, the Seedmiser draws a card for each Food token created, so every chapter of Scavenger's Talent that generates Food is also drawing cards — the enchantment is essentially a staple in the deck.

03
Ygra, Eater of All

Ygra, Eater of All

35.1% of decks · synergy 0.29

Ygra, Eater of All converts Food tokens into life gain and board presence, making the token generation from Scavenger's Talent a direct contributor to Ygra's core game plan.

04
Hazel of the Rootbloom

Hazel of the Rootbloom

23.0% of decks · synergy 0.17

Hazel of the Rootbloom cares about counters and tokens entering the battlefield, and Scavenger's Talent's chapter progression feeds both axes — tokens to proliferate around and a lore counter trigger each upkeep.

05
Gyome, Master Chef

Gyome, Master Chef

18.3% of decks · synergy 0.13

Gyome, Master Chef wants as many Food tokens in play as possible to distribute as blockers and life gain, and Scavenger's Talent is one of the more efficient repeatable sources of them available.

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

Scavenger's Talent is legal across Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Standard, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but Commander is where it actually gets played. In sixty-card formats the enchantment saga is too slow and too low-impact — three chapters of Food and self-mill don't pressure the board or close games at the pace those formats demand. Commander gives it the time and the payoff density it needs: Food synergy commanders, graveyard engines, and sacrifice outlets all exist in the 99 in numbers that make Scavenger's Talent genuinely good rather than merely playable.

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Price Context

Current price

unknown tier

Pricing data for Scavenger's Talent isn't currently available here — check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for live market rates. Given its strong inclusion rate in Camellia, the Seedmiser decks and multiple other Food-synergy builds, demand is real enough that it's unlikely to be a throw-in bulk rare.

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