Ragamuffin Raptor is one of those cards players keep asking about. Here is, in plain words, what its official text says, the rulings published by Wizards of the Coast, and the combos players actually run.
Official card text
When this creature enters, return up to one target creature or Food card from your graveyard to your hand.
Complete guide
Ragamuffin Raptor is a versatile Dinosaur that ensures your best resources aren't lost forever in the graveyard. Whether you are looking to recover a powerful creature or a delicious Food artifact, this creature provides immediate card advantage upon entering the battlefield. It is a reliable tool for green decks focused on graveyard recursion or artifact synergies.
What It Does
Ragamuffin Raptor features a single triggered ability that activates when it enters the battlefield. This ability allows you to target a creature card or a card with the 'Food' artifact type in your graveyard. You then return that card to your hand. Note that 'up to one' means you can choose not to target anything at all if your graveyard is empty or you wish to avoid specific interactions.
Step-by-Step Resolution
First, Ragamuffin Raptor enters the battlefield, causing its ability to trigger. Second, you place the trigger on the stack and choose a target card from your graveyard that is either a creature or has the Food type. Third, as long as the target remains in the graveyard when the ability resolves, the card is moved from the graveyard to your hand. If the target is removed from the graveyard before the ability resolves, the ability fails to do anything.
Important Distinctions
It is important to remember that Food is an artifact type, not a creature type. Even if a creature has the Food type, Ragamuffin Raptor can target it because it is either a creature or a Food. Additionally, this ability can target 'real' cards that have the Food type, such as specific artifact cards, not just tokens created during the game.
When to Play It
This card is best played when you have already traded off an important creature in combat or used a Food artifact for utility. At five mana, it provides a decent body on the board while replacing itself in your hand. It is particularly effective in decks that use creatures with 'enters the battlefield' effects, allowing you to cycle those powerful abilities back into your hand.
Interaction examples
Solemn SimulacrumIf your Solemn Simulacrum has died and is in your graveyard, Ragamuffin Raptor can target it when it enters. Since Solemn Simulacrum is a creature card, it returns to your hand, allowing you to cast it again to ramp another land and draw another card when it dies a second time.
Roaming ThroneIf you control Roaming Throne and chose 'Dinosaur' as its type, Ragamuffin Raptor's ability will trigger twice. This allows you to target two different cards in your graveyard—such as one creature and one Food card—and return both to your hand simultaneously.
Guide written with AI from the official text and rulings. Official English text prevails.
How it works : Ragamuffin Raptor
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
Food is an artifact type. Even though it appears on some creatures, it's never a creature type.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #2· Wizards of the Coast
Some spells and abilities that create Food tokens may require targets. If each target chosen is an illegal target as that spell or ability tries to resolve, it won't resolve. You won't create any Food tokens.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #3· Wizards of the Coast
If an effect refers to a Food, it means any Food artifact, not just a Food artifact token. For example, you can sacrifice Pizza Face (a Legendary Artifact Creature — Food Mutant) to activate Maraleaf Rider's ability (an ability with "Sacrifice a Food" in its cost). You can't sacrifice a Food to pay multiple costs. For example, you can't sacrifice a Food token to activate its own ability and also to activate Maraleaf Rider's ability.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #4· Wizards of the Coast
Whatever you do, don't eat the cards. (Also, don't make the pizzas pictured on the cards. You don't have the digestive system of a Ninja Turtle.)
No other card is named in this ruling.
Popular combos
Real combos played by the community, sorted by popularity.
Hashaton, Scarab's Fist + Mind Over Matter + Prismatic Geoscope + Ragamuffin Raptor
- 1Activate Prismatic Geoscope by tapping it, adding at least
. - 2Activate Mind Over Matter by discarding Ragamuffin Raptor.
- 3Hashaton triggers, causing you to pay
to create a tapped token copy of Ragamuffin Raptor that is a 4/4 Zombie. - 4When the Ragamuffin Raptor token enters the battlefield, it triggers, returning Ragamuffin Raptor from your graveyard to your hand.
- 5Resolve the Mind Over Matter ability, untapping Prismatic Geoscope.
- 6Repeat.
Hashaton, Scarab's Fist + Mind Over Matter + Five Hundred Year Diary + Ragamuffin Raptor
- 1Activate Five Hundred Year Diary by tapping it, adding at least .
- 2Activate Mind Over Matter by discarding Ragamuffin Raptor.
- 3Hashaton triggers, causing you to pay to create a tapped token copy of Ragamuffin Raptor that is a 4/4 Zombie.
- 4When the Ragamuffin Raptor token enters the battlefield, it triggers, returning Ragamuffin Raptor from your graveyard to your hand.
- 5Resolve the Mind Over Matter ability, untapping Five Hundred Year Diary.
- 6Repeat.
Hashaton, Scarab's Fist + Mind Over Matter + Sceptre of Eternal Glory + Ragamuffin Raptor
- 1Activate Sceptre of Eternal Glory by tapping it, adding .
- 2Activate Mind Over Matter by discarding Ragamuffin Raptor.
- 3Hashaton triggers, causing you to pay to create a tapped token copy of Ragamuffin Raptor that is a 4/4 Zombie.
- 4When the Ragamuffin Raptor token enters the battlefield, it triggers, returning Ragamuffin Raptor from your graveyard to your hand.
- 5Resolve the Mind Over Matter ability, untapping Sceptre of Eternal Glory.
- 6Repeat.
Hashaton, Scarab's Fist + Mind Over Matter + The Eternity Elevator + Ragamuffin Raptor
- 1Activate The Eternity Elevator by tapping it, adding at least twenty .
- 2Activate Mind Over Matter by discarding Ragamuffin Raptor.
- 3Hashaton triggers, causing you to pay to create a tapped token copy of Ragamuffin Raptor that is a 4/4 Zombie.
- 4When the Ragamuffin Raptor token enters the battlefield, it triggers, returning Ragamuffin Raptor from your graveyard to your hand.
- 5Resolve the Mind Over Matter ability, untapping The Eternity Elevator.
- 6Repeat.
Hashaton, Scarab's Fist + Mind Over Matter + Empowered Autogenerator + Ragamuffin Raptor
- 1Activate Empowered Autogenerator by tapping it, putting a charge counter on it and adding at least .
- 2Activate Mind Over Matter by discarding Ragamuffin Raptor.
- 3Hashaton triggers, causing you to pay to create a tapped token copy of Ragamuffin Raptor that is a 4/4 Zombie.
- 4When the Ragamuffin Raptor token enters the battlefield, it triggers, returning Ragamuffin Raptor from your graveyard to your hand.
- 5Resolve the Mind Over Matter ability, untapping Empowered Autogenerator.
- 6Repeat.
Hashaton, Scarab's Fist + Mind Over Matter + Astral Cornucopia + Ragamuffin Raptor
- 1Activate Astral Cornucopia by tapping it, adding at least .
- 2Activate Mind Over Matter by discarding Ragamuffin Raptor.
- 3Hashaton triggers, causing you to pay to create a tapped token copy of Ragamuffin Raptor that is a 4/4 Zombie.
- 4When the Ragamuffin Raptor token enters the battlefield, it triggers, returning Ragamuffin Raptor from your graveyard to your hand.
- 5Resolve the Mind Over Matter ability, untapping Astral Cornucopia.
- 6Repeat.
Hashaton, Scarab's Fist + Mind Over Matter + Gilded Lotus + Ragamuffin Raptor
- 1Activate Gilded Lotus by tapping it, adding .
- 2Activate Mind Over Matter by discarding Ragamuffin Raptor.
- 3Hashaton triggers, causing you to pay to create a tapped token copy of Ragamuffin Raptor that is a 4/4 Zombie.
- 4When the Ragamuffin Raptor token enters the battlefield, it triggers, returning Ragamuffin Raptor from your graveyard to your hand.
- 5Resolve the Mind Over Matter ability, untapping Gilded Lotus.
- 6Repeat.
Hashaton, Scarab's Fist + Mind Over Matter + Coveted Jewel + Ragamuffin Raptor
- 1Activate Coveted Jewel by tapping it, adding .
- 2Activate Mind Over Matter by discarding Ragamuffin Raptor.
- 3Hashaton triggers, causing you to pay to create a tapped token copy of Ragamuffin Raptor that is a 4/4 Zombie.
- 4When the Ragamuffin Raptor token enters the battlefield, it triggers, returning Ragamuffin Raptor from your graveyard to your hand.
- 5Resolve the Mind Over Matter ability, untapping Coveted Jewel.
- 6Repeat.
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