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Undercity Scrounger

Artifact Creature — Human Rogue2 generic manaBlack mana

A death converter dressed as a mana rock. The 1/4 body is the tell: this is not a creature meant to attack but one built to outlast the board it feeds off of, sitting behind four toughness while things die around it. The gate on the ability, requiring a creature to have died this turn, is what pins it to a narrow home; it does nothing in a vacuum and everything inside a sacrifice shell that churns bodies. That constraint aims it squarely at aristocrats decks, where each dead creature is already earning value elsewhere and the Scrounger quietly turns the same trigger into ramp or fixing. The Treasure it makes is flexible: you tap it, then can crack the token for a mana of any color right away or bank it, so it can smooth a later turn or accelerate the current one. Read that way, it is less a ramp piece than a value amplifier, converting a resource you were spending anyway (creatures) into one you can bank across colors. The artifact type on the creature itself is a small but real bonus, giving it relevance wherever artifacts entering or leaving matters. It rewards a specific engine rather than a generic curve, which keeps it conditional, but inside that engine the ceiling on repeated activations is high.

Undercity Scrounger (j25)
J25 · #501common
Pricing
Normal: $0.28
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Tap: Create a Treasure token. Activate only if a creature died this turn. (It's an artifact with "Tap, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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