Foul Watcher
Creature — Nightmare Bird
Flying
When this creature enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.)
Delirium — This creature gets +1/+0 as long as there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Jumpstart: Historic Horizons
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #20531
Foul Watcher puts a hard tax on your opponents' interaction, turning every spell they aim at your creatures into a resource decision. The effect is strong in multiplayer, and the cost is low enough that you're rarely sad to see it in an opening hand.
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, Foul Watcher does its best work in creature-heavy strategies that want to protect a key piece or punish spell-heavy pods — three opponents each paying the tax adds up fast. In Pauper, where cheap interaction is everywhere, Foul Watcher can create real friction in go-wide commons builds. Legacy and Vintage have enough free spells and efficient answers that the tax rarely stops anything that matters. Outside of Commander and Pauper, Foul Watcher sits too far down the power curve to see serious play.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data for Foul Watcher isn't available yet, so check your preferred retailer for current buylist and retail figures. As a commons-level effect without major tournament demand, it's almost certainly a bulk pickup.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.