Devouring Deep
Creature — Fish
Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Legends
- Price
- $0.37
- EDHREC rank
- #26814
Devouring Deep is a 1/3 flash creature with islandwalk that returns itself to your hand when it dies — cheap, recursive, and genuinely annoying to deal with permanently. It's a niche role-player, not a staple: run it when your deck specifically rewards repeated sacrifice triggers or graveyard loops, not as a generic blocker.
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 |
Devouring Deep is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but the only format where it earns consistent play is Pauper, where low-cost recursive creatures that generate repeated value are at a premium. In Commander, Devouring Deep finds a home in aristocrats or sacrifice-loops builds — particularly those running blue — where its self-returning death trigger fuels engines repeatedly without spending additional cards. Legacy and Vintage have no interest in it; the formats move too fast and the ceiling is too low.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.37 bulk tier
At $0.37, Devouring Deep is pure bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not scarcity. That price is stable and likely to stay there; nothing about its play pattern creates demand spikes.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.