Treasure Hunter
Creature — Human
When this creature enters, you may return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Tenth Edition
- Price
- $0.47
- EDHREC rank
- #22370
Treasure Hunter enters the battlefield and immediately returns an artifact from your graveyard to your hand — a clean, unconditional body-plus-recursion effect stapled onto a 2/2 for three mana. The rate is unspectacular, but in artifact-heavy Commander decks that want a repeatable recursion loop or a flicker target, it earns its slot.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Treasure Hunter is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it only sees real play in Commander. In Legacy and Vintage, three mana for a 2/2 with a single-use triggered ability competes against formats where turn-one plays decide games — it has no traction there. Modern similarly has access to more efficient artifact recursion at lower cost. Commander is where Treasure Hunter finds its niche: the slower pace rewards enter-the-battlefield value, artifact decks run deep enough that the graveyard is reliably stocked, and flicker or bounce effects turn the triggered ability into repeatable recursion.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.47 bulk tier
At $0.47, Treasure Hunter is firmly bulk — pick it up without hesitation if your artifact Commander deck wants another recursion body. Bulk commons and uncommons at this price point don't move much in either direction, so there's no timing consideration here; it's a cheap, functional include or an easy skip.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.