Callous Deceiver
Creature — Spirit
: Look at the top card of your library.
: Reveal the top card of your library. If it's a land card, this creature gets +1/+0 and gains flying until end of turn. Activate only once each turn.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Champions of Kamigawa
- Price
- $0.07
- EDHREC rank
- #30238
Callous Deceiver is a 2/1 flyer for three mana that lets you look at the top card of your library and choose whether to keep it there — useful in decks that care about top-deck manipulation, irrelevant everywhere else. At three mana for a body that trades with almost anything, the cost is real, and you need a dedicated reason to run it.
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 |
Callous Deceiver is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but the formats where it actually earns a slot are narrow. In Commander, it fits niche top-deck-matters builds — think Aminatou, the Fateshifter or Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign — where repeated scry-style control over your draw matters more than raw card advantage. In Pauper, a 2/1 flyer at common is at least a real body, though the ability rarely justifies the slot over more impactful options. Legacy and Vintage have no interest in a three-mana 2/1 for any reason.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.07 bulk tier
At $0.07, Callous Deceiver is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not the effect. Don't expect that to change; the narrow application keeps demand low and the price floor right where it is.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.