Snooping Newsie
Creature — Human Rogue
When this creature enters, mill two cards. (Put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard.)
As long as there are five or more mana values among cards in your graveyard, this creature gets +1/+1 and has lifelink.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BU
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Streets of New Capenna
- Price
- $0.07
- EDHREC rank
- #24301
Snooping Newsie enters the battlefield, mills two cards and gains you 1 life — a modest but real ETB that synergizes with graveyard strategies and self-mill payoffs. The cost is a two-mana 1/2 with no built-in recursion or upside beyond that trigger, so it only earns a slot when your deck actively wants cards in the graveyard.
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, Snooping Newsie is a role-player in dedicated self-mill or Dredge-adjacent decks — commanders like Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver or Sidisi, Brood Tyrant who convert milled cards into board presence will get real value from the trigger. In Pauper, the common designation matters: it slots into Dimir or Sultai self-mill shells that need cheap, repeatable mill triggers at the common slot. Modern and Pioneer have faster, more powerful mill and graveyard enablers, so Snooping Newsie is strictly a budget or synergy-count filler there. Legacy and Vintage have no realistic use case for a vanilla 1/2 with a two-card mill.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.07 bulk tier
At $0.07, Snooping Newsie is deep bulk — you're buying it for a nickel out of a dollar bin, not tracking its price. It holds that value floor indefinitely; there's no realistic scenario where a two-mana common with a minor ETB trigger moves meaningfully.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.