Dire Fleet Interloper
Creature — Human Pirate
Menace
When this creature enters, it explores. (Reveal the top card of your library. Put that card into your hand if it's a land. Otherwise, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature, then put the card back or put it into your graveyard.)
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Ixalan
- Price
- $0.15
- EDHREC rank
- #24017
Dire Fleet Interloper is a two-mana 2/1 with menace and raid-triggered deathtouch — a legitimately threatening blocker-punisher once you've attacked that turn. It's narrow by nature, but in aggressive pirate or raid-matters shells it earns its slot.
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 |
Dire Fleet Interloper lives almost entirely in Commander, where pirate tribal decks — particularly those leaning on raid payoffs — can reliably trigger its deathtouch each combat. In Pauper it's legal but too conditional to see play; aggressive commons that don't need setup are just better. Modern, Pioneer, and Legacy have zero interest in a 2/1 with a hoop to jump through. Oathbreaker could find a home for it in a pirate-flavored aggro list, but that's a narrow ask.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.15 bulk tier
At $0.15, Dire Fleet Interloper is pure bulk — the kind of card you pull from a draft chaff box rather than buy. That price is stable by default: there's no competitive demand to spike it, but tribal Commander players who want it will never struggle to find a copy.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.