Woodwraith Strangler
Creature — Plant Zombie
Exile a creature card from your graveyard: Regenerate this creature.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BG
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Ravnica: City of Guilds
- Price
- $0.07
- EDHREC rank
- #29936
Woodwraith Strangler exiles a creature from any graveyard and puts a 3/3 token onto the battlefield — reasonable rate for a single card, but five mana for a 3/3 and a graveyard hate effect is slow by competitive standards. In graveyard-heavy metas it pulls weight; everywhere else, it's a roleplayer at best, and commanders like Tormod, the Desecrator make better use of repeated exile triggers than a one-shot body.
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 |
Woodwraith Strangler is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but it only realistically sees play in Commander and Pauper. In Commander, five mana for a 3/3 plus graveyard exile is passable in casual pods where graveyards run deep, but dedicated hate pieces like Relic of Progenitus or Soul-Guide Lantern do the disruption cheaper and without demanding a creature slot. In Pauper, the common-legal graveyard hate pool is thinner, so Woodwraith Strangler competes more seriously — a 3/3 body attached to exile effect has real equity there. Legacy, Modern, and Vintage all have faster, cheaper answers and wouldn't touch it.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Tormod, the DesecratorEternal ScourgeAshnod's AltarWoodwraith Strangler
Infinite colorless mana; Infinite creature tokens; Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite landfall triggers; Infinite LTB; Infinite storm count; Infinite sacrifice triggers
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Current price
$0.07 bulk tier
At $0.07, Woodwraith Strangler is deep bulk — you'll pick it out of a dollar box or pay the shipping before you pay for the card itself. Bulk commons rarely appreciate unless they find a competitive breakout role, and nothing in Woodwraith Strangler's kit suggests that's coming.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.