Fathom Fleet Cutthroat
Creature — Human Pirate
When this creature enters, destroy target creature an opponent controls that was dealt damage this turn.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Ixalan
- Price
- $0.11
- EDHREC rank
- #24785
Fathom Fleet Cutthroat kills a creature the moment it enters — no combat, no waiting — as long as you've raided that turn. The cost is real: you need to have attacked first, which makes it a conditional removal spell stapled to a 2/2 body rather than a reliable one.
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 |
Fathom Fleet Cutthroat is a Pauper-legal common, and that's where it has the most plausible home — aggressive black decks occasionally want conditional removal on a body at four mana, though the cost is steep for that format's tempo demands. In Commander, it fits narrowly into Pirate tribal builds where attacking every turn is the plan anyway, making the raid clause easy to satisfy. Outside those dedicated attack decks, the conditional ETB makes it too unreliable; four mana for a 2/2 with a hoop to jump through doesn't clear the bar in Modern, Pioneer, or Legacy, where unconditional removal is cheap and plentiful.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.11 bulk tier
At $0.11, Fathom Fleet Cutthroat is deep bulk — the kind of card you pull from a dollar box without thinking twice. That price reflects its narrow playability, and there's no pressure to pick it up speculatively; copies will be easy to find whenever you actually want one.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.