Mist Intruder
Creature — Eldrazi Drone
Devoid (This card has no color.)
Flying
Ingest (Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player exiles the top card of their library.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Battle for Zendikar
- Price
- $0.07
- EDHREC rank
- #20829
Mist Intruder is a 2/1 flyer with Eldrazi Scion-generating Ingest — it puts a card from the opponent's library into exile every time it deals combat damage, slowly fueling colorless mana while locking out graveyard recursion. The rate is too weak for most tables, but in dedicated Eldrazi or Ingest synergy builds it pulls real weight.
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, Mist Intruder is a niche role-player: it fits Eldrazi tribal lists that care about Ingest triggers or Scion tokens, but a 2/1 flyer for two is below the power floor most pods operate at. Pauper is the format where it sees the most legitimate play, slotting into Eldrazi Processor decks that chain Ingest creatures to fuel cards like Processor Assault or Wasteland Strangler. In Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer it is strictly outclassed — the Ingest mechanic requires a critical mass of processors to matter, and those formats move too fast to assemble it. Vintage has no reason to run it. Across every 60-card format, Mist Intruder is a build-around that only rewards you when the rest of the engine is already in place.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.07 bulk tier
At $0.07, Mist Intruder sits firmly in bulk territory — you're buying it by the playset for pocket change. Bulk commons with narrow synergy applications don't appreciate, so treat it as a free inclusion rather than anything to track financially.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.