Wasteland Strangler
Creature — Eldrazi Processor
Devoid (This card has no color.)
When this creature enters, you may put a card an opponent owns from exile into that player's graveyard. If you do, target creature gets -3/-3 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Battle for Zendikar Promos
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #22878
Wasteland Strangler enters the battlefield and immediately kills something — a 3/2 that shrinks a target creature by -3/-3 on arrival is real board impact for three mana, provided you've fed at least one card into exile beforehand. The setup cost is the whole game: no exile fuel, no trigger, and you've just played a vanilla 3/2.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Wasteland Strangler belongs in any deck that exiles cards as a matter of course — processors from the original Eldrazi block reward you for sitting on opponents' exiled graveyards, and the Strangler turns that incidental exile into a removal spell stapled to a body. Legacy and Modern see it only in dedicated processor shells alongside cards like Relic of Progenitus and Nihil Spellbomb, and even there it's fringe. Pioneer has the same ceiling: narrow enough that you need to build around it, not into it. Wasteland Strangler is a Commander role-player first, a constructed curiosity second.
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Price Context
Current price
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Price data isn't available for Wasteland Strangler right now — check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for current market listings. Given its niche role and the age of its printing, it typically sits in bulk-rare territory, making it an easy pickup if the deck calls for it.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.