First printed in Outlaws of Thunder Junction (2024)
Creature — Skeleton Rogue
This creature can't block.
Whenever you commit a crime, you may pay 
. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. (Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime.)
2/2
- Illustrated by
- Andrey Kuzinskiy
Legality
- Legal in
- Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Future Standard, Historic, Timeless, Gladiator, Commander, Duel Commander, Tiny Leaders, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Competitive Brawl
- Not legal in
- Pauper, Alchemy, Penny Dreadful, Premodern, Old School 93/94, Pauper Commander, PreDH
Rulings (7)
- Forsaken Miner's last ability triggers only if Forsaken Miner is in your graveyard at the moment you cast a spell, activate an ability, or put a triggered ability on the stack with one or more targets that constitute a crime. For example, if you cast a sorcery spell that destroyed two target creatures and your targets were a creature controlled by an opponent and Forsaken Miner, Forsaken Miner's ability won't trigger. However, if you cast a spell with an additional cost of "Sacrifice a creature" and you sacrifice Forsaken Miner to pay that cost, Forsaken Miner's ability will trigger as long as you committed a crime with that spell.
- Changing the target or targets of a spell or ability won't affect whether or not the controller of that spell or ability has committed a crime. Only the initial targets chosen for that spell or ability are used to determine whether or not its controller committed a crime.
- A player commits a crime as they cast a spell, activate an ability, or put a triggered ability on the stack that targets at least one opponent, at least one permanent, spell, or ability an opponent controls, and/or at least one card in an opponent's graveyard.
- A player can commit only one crime per spell or ability they control. Targeting multiple opponents, permanents, spells, abilities, and/or cards with the same spell or ability doesn't constitute committing multiple crimes.
- You choose whether to pay as the triggered ability is resolving. Once the ability starts resolving, it's too late for anyone to respond by removing Forsaken Miner from your graveyard to stop you from bringing it back.
- For example, an ability that triggers when you cast a spell that targets an opponent will trigger at the same time as an ability that triggers whenever you commit a crime. Those abilities can be put on the stack in either order (if you control them both), and they'll both resolve before the spell that caused them to trigger.
- The spell or ability that constituted a crime doesn't have to have resolved yet or at all. As soon as you're finished casting the spell, activating the ability, or putting the triggered ability on the stack, you've committed a crime.
Prices
MTGO price: 0.003 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 1 Nov 2026).
In Limited on MTG Arena
Win rates in Arena drafts and sealed, retrieved from 17Lands (CC BY 4.0).
| Set | GIH WR | vs set | IWD | Games |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Outlaws of Thunder Junction (OTJ), Premier Draft | 54.1% | 0.0 | +2.1 | 31624 |
| Outlaws of Thunder Junction (OTJ), Sealed | 53.1% | -2.2 | -1.1 | 1541 |
- GIH WR
- win rate of the games in which the card was in the opening hand or drawn
- vs set
- points above or below the average win rate of all decks in the set
- IWD
- improvement when drawn: GIH WR minus the win rate when the card stayed in the library
- Games
- games in which the card was seen
Combos
94 combos, the most popular first:
- Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB…: Blood Artist + Forsaken Miner + Warren Soultrader
- Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB…: Forsaken Miner + Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel + Warren Soultrader
- Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB…: Blood Artist + Forsaken Miner + Phyrexian Altar
- Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB…: Forsaken Miner + Phyrexian Altar + Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
- Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB…: Forsaken Miner + Vengeful Bloodwitch + Warren Soultrader
- Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB…: Forsaken Miner + Phyrexian Altar + Vengeful Bloodwitch
- Infinite damage, Infinite death triggers…: Forsaken Miner + Goblin Bombardment + Pitiless Plunderer
- Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB…: Altar of Dementia + Forsaken Miner + Pitiless Plunderer
- Cast any number of spells from opponents' libraries, Exile each opponent's library…: Forsaken Miner + Phyrexian Altar + Rakdos, the Muscle
- Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB…: Forsaken Miner + Susurian Voidborn + Warren Soultrader
