Vault Plunderer
Creature — Human Rogue
When this creature enters, target player draws a card and loses 1 life.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Outlaws of Thunder Junction
- Price
- $0.15
- EDHREC rank
- #17044
Vault Plunderer enters the battlefield and immediately replaces itself by generating a Treasure token, netting you mana while adding a body to the board. Three mana for a 2/2 that pays one back is unexciting rate, but the self-funding entry point makes it a reasonable include in artifact-synergy shells that want density over efficiency.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Vault Plunderer earns its slot only in decks that care about Treasure token count — Prosper, Tome-Bound, Revel in Riches, or sacrifice-value piles where each token is a trigger, not just a mana source. Outside of those synergy shells, a 2/2 for three with one Treasure is below the curve for a 100-card format where competition for three-mana slots is stiff. In Pauper, common-legal Treasure generators are a meaningful category, and Vault Plunderer holds its own there as a repeatable-body-plus-token on a single card. Every other format has faster, tighter options and no structural reason to run it.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.15 bulk tier
At $0.15, Vault Plunderer is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard and postage, not the card itself. That price is stable by definition: there's no demand catalyst that lifts a narrow three-mana 2/2 out of the bulk box.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.