Sultai Scavenger
Creature — Bird Warrior
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for 
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Flying
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Khans of Tarkir
- Price
- $0.06
- EDHREC rank
- #27672
Sultai Scavenger is a 4/3 flier with delve — the body is fine, but six mana before delve reductions is a steep ask when similar effects exist cheaper. It earns a slot only in dedicated graveyard decks that reliably fuel delve early and often.
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 |
Sultai Scavenger is a pauper-legal common, and that's where it has the most realistic home — graveyard-fueled blue-black decks can put it into play for two or three mana, making the body competitive at that cost. In Commander, the ceiling is higher but so is the competition: a 4/3 flier, even discounted, struggles to justify a slot against more impactful delve threats or cheaper evasive beaters. Legacy, Vintage, and Modern all have access to faster, more efficient threats that make Sultai Scavenger irrelevant in those contexts. Pioneer is legal but similarly uninterested — the card simply doesn't do enough at any realistic mana cost to compete in that field.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.06 bulk tier
At $0.06, Sultai Scavenger is pure bulk — you'll spend more on a sleeve than the card. There's no meaningful price floor to fall through, and no trajectory that changes that.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.