Meek Attack
Enchantment
: You may put a creature card with total power and toughness 5 or less from your hand onto the battlefield. That creature gains haste. At the beginning of the next end step, sacrifice that creature.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Lorwyn Eclipsed Promos
- Price
- $0.89
- EDHREC rank
- #19887
Meek Attack lets a creature with power 2 or less attack without being blocked this turn — a built-in evasion staple for aggressive low-power strategies. The one-mana cost is trivially correct; Alesha, Who Smiles at Death decks run it because cheap, repeatable access to unblockable swings is exactly what that engine wants.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Alesha, Who Smiles at Death
Alesha, Who Smiles at Death reanimates creatures with power 2 or less, and Meek Attack turns those creatures into guaranteed damage or triggered-ability engines that opponents can't chump away.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Meek Attack is legal across the major Constructed formats but it rarely shows up outside Commander — in competitive formats the effect is too narrow and the payoff too incremental to justify a slot. In Commander, it earns its place in dedicated Alesha, Who Smiles at Death lists and any deck that wins through triggered combat effects on small creatures, where opponents regularly have large blockers that would otherwise brick the attack. The one-mana cost means it competes for a slot cleanly, though decks without a consistent reason to send in a sub-3-power creature will find it a dead draw.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.89 bulk tier
At $0.89, Meek Attack sits in bulk territory — low enough that there's no real financial barrier to trying it. Bulk rares and uncommons at this price rarely appreciate unless they find a breakout home, so treat it as a pure utility pickup rather than a spec.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.