Woodland Sleuth
Creature — Human Scout
Morbid — When this creature enters, if a creature died this turn, return a creature card at random from your graveyard to your hand.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Innistrad
- Price
- $0.08
- EDHREC rank
- #29152
Woodland Sleuth is a 3/2 for four mana that returns a creature card from your graveyard to your hand when it enters — fine text stapled to a body that's already outclassed by the format's baseline. The enter-the-battlefield recursion is real, but four mana for a 3/2 with no evasion and no upside beyond that single trigger is not a rate Commander wants.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Woodland Sleuth is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but the only format where it earns a look is Pauper, where the power floor is low enough that a 3/2 with relevant ETB text can pull weight. In Commander, the competition at four mana is brutal — decks running graveyard recursion have access to Eternal Witness and similar effects that offer better bodies or more flexible targets. Legacy, Modern, and Vintage don't want Woodland Sleuth at any price; those formats demand far more efficiency than a vanilla-sized creature with a single-trigger bounce can provide.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.08 bulk tier
At $0.08, Woodland Sleuth is pure bulk — buy it without hesitation if a specific Pauper or casual list calls for it. There's no financial risk here, and no reason to expect movement in either direction.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.