Dream Seizer
Creature — Faerie Rogue
Flying
When this creature enters, you may blight 1. If you do, each opponent discards a card. (To blight 1, put a -1/-1 counter on a creature you control.)
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Lorwyn Eclipsed
- Price
- $0.13
- EDHREC rank
- #18328
Dream Seizer steals a creature at the start of combat and hands it back at end of turn — but while you have it, that creature attacks for you, triggers your combat effects, and can't block. The temporary nature is the cost; the repeated, every-turn availability at flash speed is the payoff, and in the right shell it's a genuine value engine.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Dream Seizer earns its slot, specifically in decks that compound combat triggers or punish attacking — Goad commanders, extra combat builds, and theft-matters strategies all get disproportionate returns from borrowing the best blocker on the table every swing. In 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer it competes with permanent theft and instant-speed removal that simply closes the game faster, making it too slow and too temporary to see serious play. Pauper is where it could surprise — at common, flash-in theft at four mana is above rate for the format, though blue already has plenty of efficient tempo tools to crowd it out.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.13 bulk tier
At $0.13, Dream Seizer is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not scarcity. Bulk rares at this price tend to stay flat unless a competitive deck picks them up, and no current list is doing that, so treat this as a purely playability purchase.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.