Glissa Sunseeker
Legendary Creature — Elf Warrior
First strike
: Destroy target artifact if its mana value is equal to the amount of unspent mana you have.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Secret Lair Drop
- Price
- $2.93
- EDHREC rank
- #15669
Glissa Sunseeker answers any artifact on the board for free, as long as your mana total matches the artifact's mana value — a repeatable, no-cost removal engine that scales with your land count. The catch is the tap cost and the math dependency, which means she's strong in green midrange and nearly dead in low-land or fast-mana shells.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Glissa Sunseeker does her best work — artifact hate on a creature is always relevant, and green decks that hit their land drops can fire her ability every turn cycle once opponents start deploying Signets, Swords, and combo pieces. In Legacy and Vintage, she's too slow and too conditional; those formats kill before she untaps, and the mana-matching requirement is awkward against fast mana artifacts with low mana values. Modern is theoretically legal but she sees no play there — Collector Ouphe and Stony Silence do the job without the math. Oathbreaker is the one other format worth mentioning, where her repeatable artifact destruction can lock opponents out of key pieces if you build around her mana total.
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Price Context
Current price
$2.93 cheap tier
At $2.93, Glissa Sunseeker sits in the cheap tier — low enough to include on a whim, but not a bulk throwaway. The price is stable; she's a niche role-player with a small, consistent audience rather than a card chasing any particular spike.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.