Shady Informant
Creature — Ogre Rogue
When this creature dies, it deals 2 damage to any target.
Disguise 
(You may cast this card face down for 
as a 2/2 creature with ward . Turn it face up any time for its disguise cost.)
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BR
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Murders at Karlov Manor
- Price
- $0.04
- EDHREC rank
- #27536
Shady Informant trades a card and two mana to mill three and draw one — net neutral on cards, net negative on tempo. At those rates, there are cleaner ways to fill your graveyard and draw cards without chaining both effects onto one mediocre body.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Shady Informant is legal everywhere but finds a real home in exactly one place: Commander, and only in decks that actively want self-mill as a resource. In competitive 60-card formats — Modern, Pioneer, Legacy — dedicated graveyard strategies have faster, more efficient enablers that don't cost a creature slot. Pauper offers the most plausible fringe case, where the creature type and incidental draw might matter in a tribal or value shell, but even there the rate is unexciting. In Commander, Shady Informant belongs in Millicent, Dimir self-mill, or reanimator shells where every card in the graveyard is a resource — outside that context, cut it.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.04 bulk tier
At $0.04, Shady Informant is deep bulk — you're not buying it for its market value, you're picking it out of a dollar bin. Bulk commons at this price point don't appreciate; run it because the effect fits your deck, not because it's cheap.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.