Duergar Assailant
Creature — Dwarf Soldier
Sacrifice this creature: It deals 1 damage to target attacking or blocking creature.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- RW
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Eventide
- Price
- $0.09
- EDHREC rank
- #24464
Duergar Assailant trades itself to deal 1 damage to a creature or player, which is a floor so low it barely registers as a threat. A 1/1 for one mana that requires dying to do anything meaningful belongs in very few decks.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Duergar Assailant is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legal and playable are different things. In Commander, a 1/1 that pings for 1 on death is irrelevant at a four-player table where life totals start at 40 and board states get enormous fast. Pauper is the only format where cheap commons with any kind of death trigger get a second look, but even there the effect is too small to justify a slot over creatures that actually pressure the board. Across every format where Duergar Assailant is legal, something else does the job better.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.09 bulk tier
At $0.09, Duergar Assailant sits firmly in bulk territory — the kind of card that fills a common box and rarely leaves it. The price reflects the demand accurately; don't expect it to move.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.