Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer card art

Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer

Legendary Creature — Monkey Pirate MV 1

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What it does

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 (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.)

Combos with Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer

Lines this card is part of — what it needs alongside it, and what the two of them do. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.

  • Fable of the Mirror-Breaker // Reflection of Kiki-Jiki Combat Celebrant Infinite
    • Infinite combat phases
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite creature tokens with haste
    • Infinite death triggers
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →

Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.

Rulings

6 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2021-06-18

    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

    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

    You'll create a Treasure token even if that player has no cards left in their library to exile.

  • 2021-06-18

    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

    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

    You don't have to attack with the creature with dash unless another ability says you do.

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 5
Games played 0
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games — not enough to publish a rate yet.
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Dargo, the Shipwrecker 1 0 —
Kratos, God of War 1 0 —
Sami, Wildcat Captain 1 0 —
Tymna the Weaver 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Mono-Red 1 deck
  • Mardu 1 deck
  • Boros 1 deck

Every version of Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer

10 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly — a printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall genuinely publishes none for some of them.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer — a name search across every version, for the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.

Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only — no individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.