Mistwalker
Creature — Shapeshifter
Changeling (This card is every creature type.)
Flying
: This creature gets +1/-1 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $0.12
- EDHREC rank
- #13146
Mistwalker is a blue morph creature that trades evasion for a face-down threat, letting you bluff interaction or protect it until you're ready to flip — the cost is that a two-mana 2/2 without immediate impact is a tough sell in most powered metas. It's a role-player in dedicated morph or manifest shells, and close to unplayable outside them.
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, Mistwalker only earns a slot in decks that actively reward morph synergies — commanders like Kadena, Slinking Sorcerer, where every face-down creature generates value on entry. Elsewhere, a vanilla 2/2 for two blue pips does nothing. In Pauper, Mistwalker competes in a format where efficient creatures and tempo matter, and a morph creature with no ETB or combat bonus won't make that cut. Legacy, Modern, and Vintage have long since left morph mechanics behind as a competitive axis, so Mistwalker is purely a casual option across those formats.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.12 bulk tier
At $0.12, Mistwalker is deep bulk — the kind of card you pull from a common box rather than buy. That price is stable because demand is narrow and supply is plentiful; don't expect movement in either direction.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.