Card
Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
Mana cost {R}
Legendary Creature — Monkey Pirate 2/1
Whenever Ragavan deals combat damage to a player, create a Treasure token and exile the top card of that player's library. Until end of turn, you may cast that card. Dash {1}{R} (You may cast this spell for its dash cost. If you do, it gains haste, and it's returned from the battlefield to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.)
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 1 known combo. 6 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Mythic · H2R · #11
- Cheapest printing
- €33.60
- EDHREC salt
- 1.29
- Color identity
- Red
- Keywords
- Treasure, Dash
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B2 Core — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B3 Upgraded — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- No Game Changer, mass land denial, extra turn, tutor or two-card combo
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
1 known combo.
- Fable of the Mirror-Breaker // Reflection of Kiki-Jiki + Combat Celebrant + Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
Produces: Infinite combat phases, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2021-06-18 · Wizards of the Coast
If you choose to pay the dash cost rather than the mana cost, you're still casting the spell. It goes on the stack and can be responded to and countered. You can cast a creature spell for its dash cost only when you otherwise could cast that creature spell. Most of the time, this means during your main phase when the stack is empty. - 2021-06-18 · Wizards of the Coast
You must still follow all timing restrictions and pay all costs when casting the exiled card. If you exile a land card, you can't play that card. - 2021-06-18 · Wizards of the Coast
You'll create a Treasure token even if that player has no cards left in their library to exile. - 2021-06-18 · Wizards of the Coast
If a creature enters the battlefield as a copy of or becomes a copy of a creature whose dash cost was paid, the copy won't have haste and won't be returned to its owner's hand. - 2021-06-18 · Wizards of the Coast
If you pay the dash cost to cast a creature spell, that card will be returned to its owner's hand only if it's still on the battlefield when its triggered ability resolves. If it dies or goes to another zone before then, it will stay where it is. - 2021-06-18 · Wizards of the Coast
You don't have to attack with the creature with dash unless another ability says you do.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast