Ingenious Thief
Creature — Human Rogue
Flying
When this creature enters, look at target player's hand.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Portal
- Price
- $0.16
- EDHREC rank
- #28450
Ingenious Thief enters the battlefield and immediately strips a card from an opponent's hand, giving you a look at what's left — that's a two-for-one of information and disruption on a single body. The cost is a 1/2 for two mana that does nothing in combat, so you're paying for the effect, not the creature.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Ingenious Thief is a niche inclusion — three opponents mean three hands to disrupt, but randomly hitting one card from one player rarely swings the game at a 100-card table. It earns a slot in discard-matters builds or under commanders that care about opponents' hands, like Nath of the Gilt-Leaf or Tinybones, Trinket Thief. In Pauper, where hand disruption is a legitimate axis and commons don't get many enter-the-battlefield discard effects on a body, Ingenious Thief is more interesting — though it competes in a crowded two-drop slot. Legacy and Vintage are non-starters; the effect is too slow and too random against tuned lists.
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Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.16 bulk tier
At $0.16, Ingenious Thief is pure bulk — you'll find it in a commons box or picked up as a throw-in. There's no meaningful price floor to fall through, and niche Commander demand isn't enough to push it above bulk territory.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.