Merrow Witsniper
Creature — Merfolk Rogue
When this creature enters, target player mills a card.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Morningtide
- Price
- $0.15
- EDHREC rank
- #25507
Merrow Witsniper enters the battlefield and mills the top card of target opponent's library — one card, one time, no upside. A 1/1 for one blue that mills a single card is nowhere near the rate you need to justify a roster slot in any serious list.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Merrow Witsniper is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but being legal and being playable are different things. In Commander, milling one card out of a 99-card deck is statistically irrelevant, and the body is too small to matter in combat. Pauper is the only format where a one-mana common with an enters-the-battlefield trigger gets any consideration at all, but even there dedicated mill decks have far more efficient options. Across every format where Merrow Witsniper is legal, it sits below the playability threshold.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.15 bulk tier
At $0.15, Merrow Witsniper is deep bulk — the price reflects the demand, which is minimal. It won't lose value because there's essentially no value to lose, and no foreseeable shift in any format's metagame is likely to change that.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.