Final-Sting Faerie
Creature — Faerie Assassin
Flying
When this creature enters, destroy target creature that was dealt damage this turn.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Morningtide
- Price
- $0.14
- EDHREC rank
- #23876
Final-Sting Faerie kills a creature and exiles it on entry — no tap, no mana sink, just a body that answers something the moment it lands. The cost is three mana for a 2/1 flier, which is a real ask, but the exile clause makes it worth considering anywhere deathtouch creatures or blink effects are already in the plan.
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 |
In Commander, Final-Sting Faerie earns its slot specifically in blink and sacrifice shells — outside of those, a three-mana 2/1 that kills one creature once is too low-impact for a 100-card singleton format. Pauper is where it gets genuinely interesting: unconditional exile removal on a flying body is hard to come by at common, and the deathtouch makes it a credible blocker even after the ETB resolves. Legacy and Vintage are non-starters — the rate is nowhere near competitive in formats where a single mana buys you Fatal Push or Swords to Plowshares. Final-Sting Faerie is a Pauper and Commander role-player, not a cross-format staple.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.14 bulk tier
At $0.14, Final-Sting Faerie is bulk — you're paying for a sleeve, not the card. Bulk commons rarely move unless a new synergy piece pushes them into a specific competitive deck, and nothing on the horizon suggests that happens here.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.