Creeping Peeper
Creature — Eye
: Add
. Spend this mana only to cast an enchantment spell, unlock a door, or turn a permanent face up.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Duskmourn: House of Horror
- Price
- $0.09
- EDHREC rank
- #15264
Creeping Peeper is a 1/1 blue creature for one mana that lets opponents look at your hand — a drawback with essentially no upside attached. There is no shell in Commander where voluntarily surrendering information to three opponents is worth a one-power body.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Creeping Peeper is legal across every major format, which is less an endorsement than a reflection of how little threat it poses to any metagame. In Commander, handing three opponents a permanent window into your hand is a catastrophic disadvantage — counterspells, removal, and discard timing all become trivially easy for your opponents to optimize. In 1v1 formats like Modern, Pioneer, and Legacy, the information leak is narrower but the card still offers nothing competitive decks want; a 1/1 for one with a downside doesn't clear the bar when functional one-drops are plentiful. Pauper is the only format where bulk commons occasionally find niche homes, and even there Creeping Peeper finds none.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.09 bulk tier
At $0.09, Creeping Peeper sits firmly in bulk territory — the kind of price that reflects near-zero demand rather than hidden value waiting to be unlocked. It holds that price floor because bulk commons rarely drop below a dime, not because anyone is actively seeking it out.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.