Blightspeaker
Creature — Human Rebel Cleric
: Target player loses 1 life.
, : Search your library for a Rebel permanent card with mana value 3 or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Time Spiral Remastered
- Price
- $0.10
- EDHREC rank
- #23787
Blightspeaker trades its tap ability for a repeatable, once-per-turn Plague Wind piece — as long as you can keep leveling it up and have the mana to activate it, opponents lose creatures one at a time. The cost is real: reaching the relevant level requires significant mana investment across multiple turns, making it a slow engine that stalls against any pressure.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Blightspeaker is a fringe Pauper consideration in black-based attrition or cleric-tribal shells, where its repeated removal can accrue value in longer games, but the activation cost keeps it out of competitive lists. In Legacy and Vintage, the format is simply too fast — Blightspeaker never reaches the level threshold before the game ends. Commander is its best home, where the slower clock and higher life totals give it room to operate; cleric-tribal commanders or aristocrats builds that want redundant, reusable removal are the most natural fits.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.10 bulk tier
At $0.10, Blightspeaker is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not demand. That price is stable because interest is narrow, so there's no reason to hesitate on picking up a copy if your deck wants it.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.