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Beetle-Headed Merchants TLA 0086 · common

Beetle-Headed Merchants · {4}{B} · Creature — Human Citizen · Whenever this creature attacks, you may sacrifice another creature or artifact. If you do, draw a card and put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. · Power / toughness: 5/4 · To these desert-dwelling traders, there is profit to be found under every dune of sand and in every living thing.

Beetle-Headed Merchants · {4}{B} · Creature — Human Citizen · Whenever this creature attacks, you may sacrifice another creature or artifact. If you do, draw a card and put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. · Power / toughness: 5/4 · To these desert-dwelling traders, there is profit to be found under every dune of sand and in every living thing.

Price
from $0.081 printing
Win rate
52.3% GIH 19,739 instances · Premier Draft
Nov 18–Dec 31, 2025 · 17Lands

Game-in-hand win rate, all deck colors. 10,321 wins in 19,739 card-in-hand instances.

18,420 distinct games · 6,881 distinct drafts · games recorded Nov 18–Dec 31, 2025.

17Lands file dated Jan 10, 2026 · 100-instance minimum · 17Lands public data ↗

Draft data

52.3%when drawn (GIH)

−3.7 pp vs 56.0% average · 19,739 instances

Premier Draft · Nov 18–Dec 31, 2025 · average from 562,924 games

#246 of 289 nonland cards by win rate · last seen around pick 7.4 on average (212,650 packs).

37 of 42 black cards · 12 of 13 black common cards.

Taken at pick10.725,208 picks
Makes the deck32.2%25,208 picks with known usage
When played52.9%42,667 matchesBenched 55.3%
85,980 matches
When drawn52.3%19,739 instances

Pick and maindeck observations: Nov 18–Dec 31, 2025. Played/benched cells use matches when available; the drawn cell uses game instances.

○ Opening hand 50.2% · 7,482 instances
● Drawn later 53.6% · 12,257 instances

In hand 52.3% · 19,739 instances
Unseen in deck 54.0% · 25,851 instances
−1.7 percentage points when drawn

Compared with black cards

Win rate when drawn52.3%19,739 instances37 of 42
Opening hand50.2%7,482 instances36 of 42
Drawn later53.6%12,257 instances38 of 42
In the deck53.3%45,368 instances35 of 43
Without seeing it54.0%25,851 instances19 of 43
Improvement when drawn−1.7 pp19,739 instances / 25,851 instances39 of 42
When benched55.3%85,980 matches20 of 43
Makes the deck32.2%25,208 picks with known usage33 of 43
Pick (last seen)7.4212,650 packs40 of 44
Taken at10.725,208 picks39 of 43

Ranks require 100 observations for that metric; comparisons are descriptive, not a pick order. Pick ranks put earlier picks first.

Best decks for it

no-splash decks only · card-level in-hand rates · 100 minimum

Draw Two UB53.3%2,576 instancesSacrifice WB53.2%3,845 instances+1/+1 Counters BG52.7%1,010 instancesFire Nation Aggro BR50.6%1,586 instances

Each tick is this card’s all-decks rate (52.3% · 19,739 instances). A high card rate does not prove that splashing it will improve your deck.

Best with

Adjusted associations, ranked by confidence.

It'll Quench Ya!+7.6 pp3,806 games with both in the deck · 951 both drawnWatery Grasp+6.7 pp4,470 games with both in the deck · 1,184 both drawn
How to read this

Observational, not a causal bonus. Both cards must be in the deck. Drawn means opening hand or normally drawn; each card counts once per game. Game-level approximate intervals do not account for repeated games by the same drafter.

At least 100 games in each of four drawn/not-drawn groups; adjusted for game length and screened by the lower confidence bound. Do not add these points to a card’s win rate.

Where it sits in the set

Above 15% of 289 nonland cards with 100+ instances, in win-rate order.

30% or lowerWin rate94% or higher

17Lands public datasets ↗ · CC BY 4.0 ↗ · Nov 18–Dec 31, 2025

Collect

1 printingScryfall USD, snapshot Oct 25Pack odds →

Pick a printing for its prices and pull odds.

Prices

TLA 0086 · Regular printingListings ↗
FinishFound inPrice
NonfoilPlay Booster · Collector Booster · Beginner Box · jumpstart · prerelease-azula$0.08
FoilPlay Booster · Collector Booster$0.17

Foil in a Play Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 150 packs (0.67%) · 18.2% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Nonfoil in a Play Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 12 packs (8.64%) · 93.4% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Foil in a Collector Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 30 packs (3.30%) · 33.1% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Nonfoil in a jumpstart · Modeled · About 1 in 9 packs (10.61%) · 93.2% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Nonfoil in a prerelease-azula · Modeled · About 1 in 2 packs (50.00%) · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

How to pull it

Official rates for the whole category, not this card.

BoosterSlotPer packCategory
Play BoosterCommons100% per positionMain set common
Play BoosterCommon or source material96.15384615384616%Main set common
Play BoosterWildcard4.2%Main set common
Play BoosterFoil card53.9%Main set common
Collector BoosterFoil commons100% per positionFoil commons and dual lands

Wizards · Collecting Avatar: The Last Airbender ↗ · Oct 28, 2025

Details & sources

Legal in
Standard · Historic · Timeless · Pioneer · Modern · Legacy · Pauper · Vintage · CommanderLimited eligibility depends on the event and its booster pool.
Illustration
Norikatsu Miyoshi, TLA 86 · Scryfall ↗
More like this
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Sources
Wizards · Collecting Avatar: The Last Airbender · Oct 28, 2025
Scryfall USD, snapshot Oct 25
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