Talas Merchant
Creature — Human Pirate
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Portal Second Age
- Price
- $0.13
- EDHREC rank
- #30695
Talas Merchant is a 2/1 for two mana that replaces itself with a card draw on entry — the floor is respectable, and in decks that care about pirates or enter-the-battlefield triggers, the ceiling is genuinely useful. The body is fragile and the effect unremarkable in isolation, but the rate is fair enough to earn slots in the right shells.
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 |
Talas Merchant sees essentially no play in Legacy or Vintage, where a 2/1 that draws a card on entry can't compete with the raw power level of those formats. Pauper is the most plausible home — cantripping creatures have always overperformed at common, and Talas Merchant at least replaces itself, which is the baseline demand for any creature in that format. Commander is where it occasionally shows up, almost exclusively in pirate-tribal builds where tribal synergies and aristocrats effects make even modest bodies matter; outside of that niche, it's too replaceable to justify a slot.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.13 bulk tier
At $0.13, Talas Merchant is deep bulk — you're not paying for power, you're paying for cardboard. It's stable there; nothing about the card's applications suggests a price floor lower than this, but there's no demand vector that moves it up either.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.