Malanthrope

Malanthrope: Creature - Tyranid, Warhammer 40,000 Commander. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.

Mana cost: {1}{G}{U}
Mana value: 3
Type: Creature - Tyranid
Colour identity: Blue and green (UG)
Power / toughness: 2/2
Rarity: Rare
Set: Warhammer 40,000 Commander (40K)
Released: 2022-10-07
Collector number: 132
Artist: Ørjan Ruttenborg Svendsen
Commander rank: 12,231 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
Keywords: Flying, Scavenge the Dead

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About Malanthrope

Malanthrope is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare blue and green creature from Warhammer 40,000 Commander (40K), a Commander product released in October 2022. It is collector number 132 in that set, with art by Ørjan Ruttenborg Svendsen. It costs {1}{G}{U} (one generic, one blue and one green mana) to cast, for a mana value of 3. It is a 2/2 creature. Its colour identity is blue and green. It is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander and Oathbreaker. Warhammer 40,000 Commander is its only printing so far. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.37 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-11).

Card text

Flying

Scavenge the Dead - When this creature enters, exile target player's graveyard. Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature for each creature card exiled this way.

Market price

Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.37 (as of 2026-11-11).

The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.

Format legality

Legality of Malanthrope by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.

Legacy	Legal
Vintage	Legal
Commander	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal

Other printings of Malanthrope

The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.

Printing	Rarity	Year
Warhammer 40,000 Commander (40K) #132★	Rare	2022

Similar cards

Other creature cards with a blue and green colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.

In these precons

Malanthrope is in the decklist of these preconstructed Commander decks.

Tyranid Swarm (40K), led by The Swarmlord