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Tomb Trawler

Artifact Creature — Golem

{2}: Put target card from your graveyard on the bottom of your library.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{2}
Color identity
C
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Outlaws of Thunder Junction
Price
$0.15
EDHREC rank
#10980
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Tomb Trawler card art
Tomb Trawler enters with a card in exile and menace already on board — the payoff is immediate, not conditional on future setup. Grenzo, Dungeon Warden and River Song are the headliners, but any deck that puts cards face-down under an opponent's control runs this as a reliable value engine.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
River Song

River Song

66.0% of decks · synergy 0.65

River Song exiles cards from the top of opponents' libraries constantly, and Tomb Trawler converts that growing pile into free card advantage — the two cards you get on entry alone justify the slot in 66% of River Song decks.

02
Grenzo, Dungeon Warden

Grenzo, Dungeon Warden

58.1% of decks · synergy 0.57

Grenzo, Dungeon Warden runs a tight loop of milling and reanimating from the bottom of libraries, and Tomb Trawler slots in as both a threat and a draw engine that rewards the same graveyard-adjacent activity the deck is already doing.

03
Arcum Dagsson

Arcum Dagsson

25.4% of decks · synergy 0.25

Tomb Trawler shows up in roughly a quarter of Arcum Dagsson lists as an artifact creature that pulls double duty — it counts toward Arcum's sacrifice requirement while converting exiled artifacts into cards.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Tomb Trawler is legal in every major constructed format but has found no meaningful competitive foothold outside Commander — the effect simply isn't fast enough for Legacy or Modern, where three mana for a 3/2 with conditional card advantage doesn't register. In Pioneer and Standard it's similarly outclassed by more efficient threats. Commander is where it actually lives: the longer game means the exile-based draw pays off repeatedly, and the density of commanders who generate exile triggers makes Tomb Trawler a genuine engine piece rather than a curiosity.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.15 bulk tier

At $0.15, Tomb Trawler is deep bulk — you're picking it out of a dollar bin or bundling it into a low-cost order. Don't expect that to change; the card has a narrow home and no crossover demand from competitive formats.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.