Viashino Racketeer
Creature — Lizard Rogue
When this creature enters, you may discard a card. If you do, draw a card.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Return to Ravnica
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #25631
Viashino Racketeer replaces itself with a discard-then-draw on a 2/1 body for three mana — the effect is real, but the rate is not. This is a filler card that earns a slot only in dedicated discard-matters builds where every loot effect counts.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Viashino Racketeer is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Pauper, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but competitive relevance is essentially zero outside Pauper and niche Commander lists. In Pauper, dedicated looting shells can use it as a redundant piece, though Rummaging Goblin fills the same role on a repeatable body. In Commander, Viashino Racketeer earns consideration only in discard-matters decks — Anje Falkenrath builds chief among them — where stacking loot effects has compounding value. Everywhere else, the one-shot looting on a fragile 2/1 for three mana is simply too low-impact to justify a slot.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Viashino Racketeer is deep bulk — the kind of card you pull from a common box without a second thought. The price is stable in the way irrelevance is stable: no demand spike is coming, but it costs nothing to include if the deck wants it.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.