Veteran Survivor
Creature — Human Survivor
Survival — At the beginning of your second main phase, if this creature is tapped, exile up to one target card from a graveyard.
As long as there are three or more cards exiled with this creature, it gets +3/+3 and has hexproof. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Duskmourn: House of Horror
- Price
- $0.23
- EDHREC rank
- #17734
Veteran Survivor turns combat into a resource engine — every attack step nets you a card when it connects, which compounds fast in multiplayer. The cost is that it needs to deal combat damage to a player, making it a removal magnet the moment opponents understand what it does.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Veteran Survivor earns its slot — three opponents means three potential targets per combat step, and political decks can angle damage toward the most vulnerable player to maximize triggers. In 1v1 formats like Legacy, Modern, or Pioneer, the payoff shrinks dramatically: one opponent who stabilizes the board shuts the engine off entirely, and those formats have removal efficient enough to answer a 2/3 before it ever connects. Standard offers the friendliest non-Commander home since aggro mirrors create the open boards Veteran Survivor needs, but it still competes against stronger two-drops. Treat it as a Commander card that happens to be legal elsewhere.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.23 bulk tier
At $0.23, Veteran Survivor is firmly bulk — the kind of card you pick up as a throw-in or pull from a common box without thinking. Bulk rares with narrow synergy profiles rarely climb unless a new commander breaks them wide open, so don't expect the price to move.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.