Shriek Raptor
Creature — Phyrexian Bird
Flying
Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- New Phyrexia
- Price
- $0.08
- EDHREC rank
- #20424
Shriek Raptor is a five-mana 1/4 with flying and infect — a body too small to threaten any board and a cost too high to justify the effect. Unless your deck is explicitly built around proliferate or poison counters, this slot does more work with almost anything else.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Shriek Raptor occupies an awkward position: infect strategies exist, but they need every slot to close games fast, and a 1/4 for five that can't kill a player alone rarely makes the cut. In Pauper, where infect is a real archetype, the competition at common is stiff enough that Shriek Raptor's stat line disqualifies it from serious consideration. Legacy and Vintage are non-starters — the card does nothing at a competitive pace. Oathbreaker has the same constraint as Commander: infect needs efficiency, and five mana for a 1/4 is the opposite of that.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.08 bulk tier
At $0.08, Shriek Raptor is deep bulk — you're not buying it for value, you're pulling it from a common box because nothing better is available. That price is stable precisely because demand is essentially zero.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.