Dimir Strandcatcher
Creature — Faerie Rogue
Flying
Whenever you attack, surveil X, where X is the number of opponents being attacked.
At the beginning of each end step, if three or more cards were put into your graveyard from anywhere other than the battlefield this turn, draw a card.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BU
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Ravnica: Clue Edition
- Price
- $1.07
- EDHREC rank
- #15626
Dimir Strandcatcher puts an immediate body on board while locking down an opponent's graveyard — the mill hate and the threat are packaged together, not separate slots. Mirko, Obsessive Theorist decks run it because the selectively milled cards you want in graveyards stay there, while opponents who need their own yards can't use them.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Mirko, Obsessive Theorist
Mirko, Obsessive Theorist mills precisely and wants graveyard resources for himself, so Dimir Strandcatcher's selective exile effect shuts down opposing graveyard synergies without disrupting the engine Mirko is building.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Dimir Strandcatcher lives almost entirely in Commander, where graveyard strategies are ubiquitous enough that a repeatable exile effect on a creature body earns its slot. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but irrelevant — those formats move too fast for a three-mana creature with conditional upside to compete with dedicated hate like Rest in Peace. Commander is the only context where the combination of a clock and incremental graveyard disruption on a single card justifies the mana cost.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$1.07 cheap tier
At $1.07, Dimir Strandcatcher sits in the bulk-rare tier where the price reflects casual demand rather than competitive pressure. It's a stable pickup — niche enough to stay cheap, played enough in Mirko lists that copies aren't hard to find.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.