Groundling Pouncer
Creature — Faerie
: This creature gets +1/+3 and gains flying until end of turn. Activate only once each turn and only if an opponent controls a creature with flying.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GU
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Eventide
- Price
- $0.07
- EDHREC rank
- #30399
Groundling Pouncer is a conditional evasion piece — it gains flying until end of turn whenever an opponent plays a spell with flying, which means its impact depends entirely on your opponents' decks. A 2/1 for two mana that sometimes trades through the air is not a card you can count on.
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 |
In Commander, Groundling Pouncer occupies a narrow niche: blue-green tempo or flying-matters builds that want cheap bodies and can pick up incidental evasion when opponents cast their own fliers. The triggered flying is reactive, so it underperforms against ground-based or token strategies that never give it an opening. In Legacy and Vintage it has no realistic role — the formats move too fast and the bar for a two-mana 2/1 is impossible to clear. Groundling Pouncer is a Commander-only consideration, and even there it needs a specific shell to earn its slot.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.07 bulk tier
At $0.07, Groundling Pouncer is deep bulk — the kind of card you pick up as an afterthought or pull from a common box. There is no pressure to buy in now or later; supply is abundant and demand is narrow enough that this price is effectively a floor.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.