Evin, Waterdeep Opportunist
Legendary Creature — Human Rogue
Menace
Ward—Sacrifice a creature.
Evin gets +2/+0 for each Treasure you control.
Whenever one or more players sacrifice one or more creatures, you create a tapped Treasure token. This ability triggers only once each turn.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Universes Within
- Price
- $11.07
- EDHREC rank
- #12000
Evin, Waterdeep Opportunist puts opponents in an immediate lose-lose: attack you and hand over resources, or leave you alone and fall behind. The cost is real — you need to be the one getting hit — but in the right deck, Evin, Waterdeep Opportunist is a one-card engine that rewards taking damage rather than avoiding it.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Malik, Grim Manipulator
Malik, Grim Manipulator already wants opponents losing permanents and life, and Evin, Waterdeep Opportunist feeds that loop directly — every combat damage trigger generates the fodder Malik needs to keep grinding value and threatening the table.
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 |
Evin, Waterdeep Opportunist is a Commander card through and through — the political leverage and incremental resource generation it provides scale with the multiplayer environment in ways that don't translate to one-on-one formats. In Legacy and Vintage, where it's technically legal, the effect is too slow and conditional against linear combo decks that ignore combat entirely. Oathbreaker is the one other format worth mentioning, where a Grixis or Sultai signature spell shell could squeeze value out of Evin, Waterdeep Opportunist, though the 60-card redundancy pressure makes it harder to build around. Stick to Commander — that's where this card earns its slot.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
Cunning Rhetoric does the closest impression of Evin, Waterdeep Opportunist at a fraction of the cost, exiling attacking cards so opponents have to weigh aggression the same way — though it doesn't generate the positive resource flow Evin does, just punishes. Grenzo, Havoc Raiser is another cheap pivot that rewards being attacked into, converting combat damage into stolen spells, though it requires your own creatures dealing damage rather than receiving it.
Price Context
Current price
$11.07 mid tier
At $11.07, Evin, Waterdeep Opportunist sits in the mid tier — expensive enough to feel like a deliberate include, not so expensive it breaks a budget build. It's a narrow enough card that the price is unlikely to spike dramatically, but if Grixis theft strategies keep picking up steam, that floor could drift upward.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Malik, Grim Manipulator
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.