Blink Dog
Creature — Dog
Double strike
Teleport — 
: This creature phases out. (Treat it and anything attached to it as though they don't exist until your next turn.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Adventures in the Forgotten Realms
- Price
- $0.16
- EDHREC rank
- #14631
Blink Dog enters with flash, deals combat damage to a player, and draws you a card — a clean, self-replacing threat on the opponent's end step. Outside of Sophia, Dogged Detective decks where it's a full synergy piece, it's a role-player too narrow to run elsewhere.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Sophia, Dogged Detective
Blink Dog is a near-auto-include in Sophia, Dogged Detective because it triggers Sophia's clue-generating ability on contact and replaces itself immediately, turning every attack into incremental card advantage that compounds over a long game.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Blink Dog is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but competitive non-rotating formats have no interest in a three-mana 2/2 with flash and a conditional draw. Commander is the only home that matters, and even there it belongs in exactly one deck: Sophia, Dogged Detective, where the dog tribal tag and clue synergies make it legitimately good. Elsewhere it's a curiosity — the flash-plus-cantrip chassis is too weak at three mana to justify the slot in any general goodstuff build.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.16 bulk tier
At $0.16, Blink Dog is deep bulk — easy to acquire as a throw-in or from a commons box. Demand is narrow enough that the price is unlikely to move unless Sophia, Dogged Detective sees a sudden surge in popularity.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.