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◇ Catalog #79

Tavern Swindler

rtr·#79·uncommon·nonfoil

Illus. Cynthia Sheppard

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for trade

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wishlisted

Oct '12

14 yr ago

Value

$0.12+$0 (+4.2%)

30 days high $0.12 · low $0.11

NM$0.12

LP—

MP—

HP—

DMG—

$0.11–$0.13modeled

30 days ago
today

90-dayhigh $0.12low $0.03range 300.0%n 54

Where to buy / sell

TCGplayer eBay sold Cardmarket EU Star City

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Played in EDH

EDHrec rank #11,874 · Fringe play

Variants

Foil$0.33

Nonfoil$0.12

Gameplay

Creature — Human Rogue

{T}, Pay 3 life: Flip a coin. If you win the flip, you gain 6 life.

Rakdos cultists are her best customers. They never flinch at pain and are seldom good at math.

2/2

Legalities

tlrlegal

duellegal

brawllegal

pennylegal

PreDH

Rulings · 1

2017-11-17wotc

You can't activate Tavern Swindler's ability if your life total is less than 3. You can activate it if your life total is exactly 3, but it's probably a bad idea. You'll lose the game before the ability resolves.

Context

Last observed on Scryfall 2 months ago at $0.12. Over the trailing 90 days the price moved between $0.03 and $0.12 across 54 observations. Cross-checked across TCGplayer, eBay sold, Cardmarket EU, and Star City.

This printing is one of 3 catalogued treatments from RTR — the lineup includes Foil and Nonfoil alongside the standard finish. Across our catalog the Rarix library tracks every variant in the same family so collectors can compare price, scarcity and demand inside a single lineage.

Card #79 of *Return to Ravnica*, the set that shipped alongside the October 2012 Return to Ravnica release.

Card type: Creature — Human Rogue, color identity black, printed at uncommon. Uncommons fill the middle-tier slots in a standard booster configuration. Mana cost: {1}{B} (2 converted).

Legal across the major constructed formats — Modern, Legacy, Vintage, and Commander — plus Standard rotation play.

EDHrec ranks this card #11,874 in Commander, putting it in the fringe-play tier of the format's playable pool.

Illustrated by Cynthia Sheppard. Rarix catalogs 283 other cards credited to this artist.