Magic: The Gathering

Golgari Decoy

Return to Ravnica 127 • uncommon

Set: Return to Ravnica
Collector number: 127
Rarity: Uncommon
Mana cost: 3 generic mana green mana
Type: Creature
Colors: Green
Artist: Marco Nelor
Market price: $0.11

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$0.11market price via TCGplayer · Aug 19, 2026$0.11 – $0.14 over the tracked period

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Lore

Why it matters

As an uncommon creature, the Golgari Decoy serves as a tactical tool for shifting combat dynamics on the table. Its presence encourages players to manipulate board states, making it a reliable utility piece for those building around the specific strategies associated with its set.

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What it does

All creatures able to block this creature do so.

Scavenge 3 generic mana green mana green mana (3 generic mana green mana green mana, Exile this card from your graveyard: Put a number of +1/+1 counters equal to this card's power on target creature. Scavenge only as a sorcery.)

Formats

Where you can play it

StandardNot legal
PioneerLegal
ModernLegal
LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
CommanderLegal
PauperNot legal
BrawlNot legal
HistoricNot legal
TimelessNot legal
Penny DreadfulLegal
OathbreakerLegal

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Provenance

Where it came from

Golgari Decoy was released in the 2012 Magic: The Gathering expansion Return to Ravnica, which served as a return to the fan-favorite cityscape of Ravnica. As part of the Golgari Swarm, the card embodies the guild's core philosophy of recycling life and death within the subterranean undercity. The mechanical focus of the card, featuring the scavenge keyword, was designed to highlight the guild's unique ability to utilize cards in the graveyard as a secondary resource, emphasizing the cyclical nature of growth and decay.

The artwork was commissioned from illustrator Marco Nelor, who leaned into the dark, fungal aesthetic of the Golgari. Nelor's design utilizes a gritty, earthy color palette and visceral textures to depict the creature as an extension of the rot-farms that define the guild’s territory. Upon its release, the card was received as a functional tool for Limited environments, where its ability to manipulate combat states by forcing blocks proved to be a practical, if niche, application of the set's graveyard-centric mechanics.

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