Shore Keeper
Creature — Trilobite
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, Sacrifice this creature: Draw three cards.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Ixalan
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #26526
Shore Keeper is a 0/3 wall that lets you pay seven mana to draw three cards — a mana-intensive effect stapled to a body that blocks exactly once before dying to anything with power 3 or greater. The activated ability is too expensive to be a real draw engine, and the stats don't compensate, so Shore Keeper belongs in the bulk bin.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Shore Keeper is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legal doesn't mean playable. In Commander, the seven-mana draw-three is competing with Harmonize, Concentrate, and a dozen cheaper options that don't require a creature slot — Shore Keeper loses that comparison badly. In Pauper, where commons actually see competitive play, a 0/3 that costs seven to draw three has no place in any viable shell. Across every other format, the card is simply outclassed by more efficient draw and better defensive bodies.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Shore Keeper is deep bulk — the kind of card you find in a dollar box at the bottom of a stack. There's no trajectory here; demand doesn't exist to move the price in either direction.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.