Echo Inspector
Creature — Bird Rogue
Flying
When this creature enters, it connives. (Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Streets of New Capenna
- Price
- $0.03
- EDHREC rank
- #22987
Echo Inspector enters as a 4/3 with ward 2 — reasonable stats for a four-mana blue creature, and the ward tax makes it annoying to answer cleanly. It's a serviceable body in creature-heavy formats, but nothing here demands inclusion over more efficient options.
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 |
Echo Inspector is bulk in every competitive format — Modern, Pioneer, Legacy, and Vintage all have four-mana blue creatures that do far more than present a 4/3 with ward. Pauper is the most hospitable home, where ward 2 on a creature this size carries real friction against opponents with limited resources. In Commander, Echo Inspector is passable filler in go-wide blue decks that want bodies, but ward 2 on a single creature rarely shifts outcomes at a table of four.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.03 bulk tier
At $0.03, Echo Inspector is deep bulk — the kind of card you pull from a common box without thinking twice. That price is stable because demand is essentially zero; don't expect movement in either direction.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.