Delver of Secrets // Insectile Aberration
Creature — Human Wizard // Creature — Human Insect
At the beginning of your upkeep, look at the top card of your library. You may reveal that card. If an instant or sorcery card is revealed this way, transform this creature.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Innistrad
- Price
- $0.35
- EDHREC rank
- #15712
Delver of Secrets // Insectile Aberration is a one-mana threat that becomes a 3/2 flying beater the moment your deck does what it was already going to do — stack the top of your library with instants and sorceries. The floor is a vanilla 1/1; the ceiling is one of the best rate-efficient creatures in Magic.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Delver of Secrets // Insectile Aberration is a Legacy staple precisely because that format's density of cheap cantrips makes the flip nearly automatic on turn two. In Modern it remains viable in tempo and prowess shells, though the format's speed demands you sequence carefully to flip it before it trades down unfavorably. Pauper is where it arguably does its best work per-dollar, anchoring blue tempo strategies that can protect it with counterspells while pressuring life totals fast. Commander is the hardest sell — a single 3/2 flyer doesn't move the needle in multiplayer, and the singleton format makes consistent flipping unreliable without a dedicated spell-slinger build helmed by someone like Niv-Mizzet, Parun or Vadrik, Astral Archmage.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.35 bulk tier
At $0.35, Delver of Secrets // Insectile Aberration is firmly bulk despite its competitive pedigree — years of reprints have kept it accessible. It holds that floor comfortably given perpetual demand from Legacy and Pauper players, so don't expect it to drop further or spike without a format shift.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.