Shortcut Seeker
Creature — Human Rogue
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, venture into the dungeon. (Enter the first room or advance to the next room.)
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Adventures in the Forgotten Realms
- Price
- $0.16
- EDHREC rank
- #15168
Shortcut Seeker enters as a 4/4 with trample and connive — draw a card, discard a card, and if you pitched a nonland it gets a +1/+1 counter, all stapled to a reasonable body for four mana. The cost is that four mana is a crowded slot and a vanilla-adjacent creature with no evasion beyond trample competes hard for that space.
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 |
In Commander, Shortcut Seeker is fringe playable at best — the connive trigger offers a single loot with upside, but four mana for a creature that doesn't immediately impact the board or generate card advantage beyond a discard filter is a tough sell in a 100-card format where competition at that cost is brutal. Pauper is where Shortcut Seeker has the most credible home, since a 4/4 trample body at common is legitimately above rate and connive fuels graveyard-adjacent strategies without requiring rare slots. In Modern, Pioneer, Legacy, and Vintage, the card simply doesn't reach the power threshold — formats that tolerate four-mana creatures demand immediate game-warping impact, and Shortcut Seeker doesn't deliver that.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.16 bulk tier
At $0.16, Shortcut Seeker sits firmly in bulk territory, which accurately reflects its limited competitive demand. Don't expect the price to move — bulk commons with narrow applications stay bulk.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.