Vastlands Scavenger // Bind to Life

Secrets of Strixhaven #166

Type: Creature — Bear Druid // Instant

Mana cost: {1}{G}{G} // {4}{G}

Card text: Deathtouch This creature enters prepared. (While it's prepared, you may cast a copy of its spell. Doing so unprepares it.) // Mill seven cards. Then put a creature card from among them onto the battlefield.

P/T: 4/4

Rarity: rare

Artist: Bryan Sola

Released: April 24, 2026

Prices

$0.36 USD · $0.47 USD (Foil) · €0.32 EUR

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Format Legality

Format	Legality
Standard	✓ Legal
Pioneer	✓ Legal
Modern	✓ Legal
Legacy	✓ Legal
Commander	✓ Legal
Vintage	✓ Legal
Pauper	✗ Not Legal
Oathbreaker	✓ Legal

Draft & Sealed Synergies

Best cards to pair with Vastlands Scavenger // Bind to Life in Secrets of Strixhaven limited

common

Owlin Historian

Creature — Bird Cleric

Bind to Life mills seven cards, and Owlin Historian gets +1/+1 whenever cards leave your graveyard, triggering when you cast creatures from the milled cards.

Stone Docent

Creature — Spirit Chimera

Bind to Life mills creatures into your graveyard, and Stone Docent can be exiled from graveyard for value, creating synergy with self-mill strategies.

Cheerful Osteomancer // Raise Dead

Creature — Orc Warlock // Sorcery

Bind to Life mills creatures into graveyard and reanimates one, while Raise Dead can return another creature milled by Bind to Life to hand.

uncommon

Forum Necroscribe

Creature — Troll Warlock

Bind to Life is an instant that targets a creature (Vastlands Scavenger), triggering Forum Necroscribe's Repartee to reanimate another creature from the graveyard it just milled.

rare

Grave Researcher // Reanimate

Creature — Troll Warlock // Sorcery

Bind to Life mills seven cards to stock your graveyard, enabling Grave Researcher to become prepared and cast Reanimate to bring back high-value creatures.

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