Desperate Sentry
Creature — Human Soldier
When this creature dies, create a 3/2 colorless Eldrazi Horror creature token.
Delirium — This creature gets +3/+0 as long as there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Eldritch Moon
- Price
- $0.03
- EDHREC rank
- #24666
Desperate Sentry is a 1/2 for two mana that leaves behind a 3/2 colorless token when it dies — reasonable rate for sacrifice and aristocrats strategies that want bodies at both stages. It's not a staple, but it pulls its weight in any deck that cares about death triggers or needs cheap fodder twice over.
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 |
Desperate Sentry is legal across Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but it sees meaningful play in almost none of them. In Commander, the home where it makes the most sense, sacrifice decks can use it as cheap two-stage fodder, though the competition for that slot is steep — better options exist at the same mana cost. In Pauper, where common-only constraints make every card fight harder for a slot, Desperate Sentry doesn't crack lists because the token it leaves is colorless and the body itself is undersized. Treat it as a budget placeholder, not a format staple.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.03 bulk tier
At $0.03, Desperate Sentry is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard and shipping, not the card. That price is stable in the way all bulk commons are stable: it won't spike, and there's no reason it should.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.