Shoreline Ranger
Creature — Bird Soldier Ranger
Flying
Islandcycling 
(, Discard this card: Search your library for an Island card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Scourge
- Price
- $0.17
- EDHREC rank
- #21738
Shoreline Ranger fetches an Island to hand when it enters — a one-time card selection stapled to a 3/4 body for five mana. That rate is too slow for most formats, and the payoff is too small to justify the slot.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Shoreline Ranger sees essentially no competitive play in Legacy or Vintage, where five mana buys far more impactful effects. Pauper is its most realistic home, where common-only card pools make even modest card selection worth a second look — but five mana is still a steep ask for a 3/4 that replaces itself once. In Commander, it sits at the bottom of the ramp and draw pile: it doesn't actually ramp, it just cycles into an Island, and that effect gets outclassed by nearly every two-mana option in green or blue.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.17 bulk tier
At $0.17, Shoreline Ranger is bulk by any measure. That price reflects the card's power level accurately — don't expect it to move.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.