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Faerie Impostor

Creature — Faerie Rogue

Flying
When this creature enters, sacrifice it unless you return another creature you control to its owner's hand.

CMC
1
Mana cost
{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Duel Decks: Speed vs. Cunning
Price
$0.33
EDHREC rank
#14428
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Faerie Impostor card art
Faerie Impostor lands as a one-mana 2/1 flier that bounces one of your own creatures on entry — free tempo, free ETB trigger, no real cost if you're building to exploit it. In Faerie-tribal shells, especially under Obyra, Dreaming Duelist, the bounce is the point: you're reloading ETB effects or generating Archmage of Echoes token copies on demand rather than paying a tax.

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Obyra, Dreaming Duelist

Obyra, Dreaming Duelist

30.1% of decks · synergy 0.30

Obyra, Dreaming Duelist pings opponents whenever you cast a Faerie spell, so replaying Faerie Impostor to bounce and recast another Faerie is effectively repeatable, near-free damage — each loop adds to the clock without requiring extra mana investment.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Faerie Impostor sees essentially no competitive play in Modern, Legacy, or Pioneer, where the Faerie package demands more than a 2/1 bounce effect and dedicated tribal synergy is too narrow for those fields. In Commander it earns its slot almost exclusively in Faerie-tribal builds, where the self-bounce becomes a repeatable ETB engine rather than a throwaway effect. Outside of tribal, there's no reason to run it — a one-mana 2/1 with a drawback isn't pulling weight in a 100-card singleton format unless the deck is specifically built to abuse the bounce.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.33 bulk tier

At $0.33, Faerie Impostor sits firmly in bulk territory — you're not paying a premium for it, and there's no reason to expect that to change given how narrow the card's role is. Pick it up freely if you're building Faerie tribal; it will never be a budget concern.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.