Darkling Stalker
Creature — Shade Spirit
: Regenerate this creature.: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Tempest
- Price
- $0.11
- EDHREC rank
- #27097
Darkling Stalker is a recursive black creature that can repeatedly return from the graveyard by paying its regeneration-adjacent cost, making it a persistent blocker and sacrifice fodder in attrition-based strategies. The floor is low — it's a small body — but the ceiling in aristocrats and death-trigger shells is real.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Darkling Stalker earns its slot in sacrifice-focused decks that want cheap, recurring creatures to feed altars and death triggers turn after turn. In Pauper, the common slot is competitive for mana efficiency, and Darkling Stalker's recursion is genuinely useful in black-based control shells that grind through attrition. Legacy and Vintage are legal but irrelevant — the power bar is too high for a three-mana 1/1 to matter. Outside those formats, it's simply not legal, and Pauper is the only 60-card context where it sees any real consideration.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.11 bulk tier
At $0.11, Darkling Stalker is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not scarcity. It won't appreciate; pick it up in a bulk lot or as a throwaway inclusion and don't think twice about the cost.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.