Lurking Deadeye
Creature — Human Assassin
Flash
When this creature enters, destroy target creature that was dealt damage this turn.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Jumpstart 2022
- Price
- $0.11
- EDHREC rank
- #22393
Lurking Deadeye enters the battlefield dealing damage equal to its power to any target — a 3-damage ETB stapled to a 3/1 body for three mana. The cost is the creature itself: a 3/1 dies to a stiff breeze, so the value lives entirely in that trigger, not in what survives.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Lurking Deadeye is a niche piece in aristocrats and flicker shells that want repeatable ETB damage — blink it enough times and it pings down a planeswalker or clears small utility creatures. Outside Commander, the card sees essentially no play: competitive Pauper has far more efficient three-drop options, and the 3/1 statline is too fragile to matter in Modern or Pioneer. Legacy and Vintage have no interest in a three-mana creature whose ceiling is three damage. Lurking Deadeye is a Commander-or-nothing card, and even there it needs a dedicated shell to justify the slot.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.11 bulk tier
At $0.11, Lurking Deadeye sits firmly in bulk territory — you're paying for cardboard, not demand. Narrow synergy cards at this price rarely appreciate unless a Commander printing or new combo piece drags them into a specific meta, so treat it as a cheap pickup for a targeted build and nothing more.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.