Invasion of Eldraine // Prickle Faeries
Battle — Siege // Creature — Faerie
(As a Siege enters, choose an opponent to protect it. You and others can attack it. When it's defeated, exile it, then cast it transformed.)
When this Siege enters, target opponent discards two cards.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- March of the Machine
- Price
- $0.08
- EDHREC rank
- #15489
Invasion of Eldraine // Prickle Faeries drops a Silence effect stapled to a two-mana battle, then flips into a flying deathtouch threat that punishes opponents for tapping out — real impact for a real cost of zero additional resources beyond the initial cast. Winter, Misanthropic Guide decks are the primary home, where the taxing effect on the front face lines up directly with the deck's gameplan of making opponents pay more for everything.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Winter, Misanthropic Guide
Winter, Misanthropic Guide's entire identity is taxing opponents into irrelevance, and Invasion of Eldraine // Prickle Faeries front face extends that pressure by locking out noncreature spells on the turn it enters — letting Winter's static effects do their work while opponents sit on dead hands. The Prickle Faeries back face is a fine follow-up threat that fits the evasive, grindy plan Winter wants to execute.
Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal
Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal wants opponents discarding cards and struggling to rebuild, and Invasion of Eldraine // Prickle Faeries front face creates exactly the kind of tempo disruption that deepens that disadvantage. The deathtouch flier on the back face also plugs cleanly into a black midrange beatdown plan that Aclazotz frequently pilots.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Invasion of Eldraine // Prickle Faeries fits squarely into blue-black control and tax shells — the front face creates a board-wide Silence effect that can strand an entire table on a key turn, and a two-mana entry point makes it easy to deploy ahead of curve. In Modern and Pioneer, it sees fringe play in control sideboards as a battle that doubles as disruption, but it competes with more efficient options and rarely earns a main deck slot. Legacy has better tools at every point on the curve, so Invasion of Eldraine // Prickle Faeries doesn't register there.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.08 bulk tier
At $0.08, Invasion of Eldraine // Prickle Faeries is pure bulk — you're picking this up for essentially nothing, and that's unlikely to change given its narrow application and limited competitive presence. Grab a copy for any tax or disruption Commander build without a second thought.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Winter, Misanthropic Guide
- Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.