Tar Pit Warrior
Creature — Cyclops Warrior
When this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, sacrifice it.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Visions
- Price
- $0.12
- EDHREC rank
- #30918
Tar Pit Warrior is a 3/4 for three mana with a punishing downside: if it's in your hand at the start of your upkeep, you discard it. That clause makes it nearly unplayable outside of decks that actively want to dump cards from hand, and even those decks have better options.
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 |
Tar Pit Warrior is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but sees essentially no competitive play in any of them. In Pauper, where efficient commons matter most, the forced-discard upkeep trigger is a liability no aggressive deck wants to manage. In Legacy and Vintage, the card doesn't come close to the power threshold. Commander is the only format where the discard trigger could theoretically be exploited — madness payoffs, Anje Falkenrath, or discard-matters commanders — but Tar Pit Warrior offers no enters-the-battlefield effect, no keyword, and no payoff beyond a vanilla body, making it a tough sell even there.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.12 bulk tier
At $0.12, Tar Pit Warrior is deep bulk — the kind of card that fills a commons box and rarely leaves it. Demand is low enough that the price is unlikely to move unless a very specific discard-matters Commander deck popularizes it, which hasn't happened.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.