Crimestopper Sprite
Creature — Faerie Detective
As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may collect evidence 6. (Exile cards with total mana value 6 or greater from your graveyard.)
Flying
When this creature enters, tap target creature. If evidence was collected, put a stun counter on it. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Murders at Karlov Manor
- Price
- $0.07
- EDHREC rank
- #23750
Crimestopper Sprite locks down one creature during combat for a single blue mana — cheap disruption that can blank an alpha strike or protect a key attacker. The effect is real, but one-shot and sorcery-adjacent enough that it rarely makes the 99 over permanents that do the same job every turn.
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 |
In Commander, Crimestopper Sprite is too narrow — tapping one creature once isn't worth a card slot when you're facing three opponents and need repeatable interaction. Constructed formats are equally unkind: in Standard, Modern, Pioneer, and Legacy, better one-mana blue interaction crowds it out entirely, and the combat-only restriction makes it worse than most tap effects that cost the same. Pauper has the deepest pool of cheap blue creatures, but even there Crimestopper Sprite doesn't crack serious lists.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.07 bulk tier
At $0.07, Crimestopper Sprite is deep bulk — the kind of card that ends up in draft chaff binders. That price will hold simply because demand isn't coming.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.