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Mite Overseer

Creature — Phyrexian Soldier

First strike
During your turn, creature tokens you control get +1/+0 and have first strike.
{3}{W/P}: Create a 1/1 colorless Phyrexian Mite artifact creature token with toxic 1 and "This token can't block." (Players dealt combat damage by it also get a poison counter. {W/P} can be paid with either {W} or 2 life.)

CMC
4
Mana cost
{3}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
rare
Set
Phyrexia: All Will Be One
Price
$0.40
EDHREC rank
#7660
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Mite Overseer card art
Mite Overseer turns every Phyrexian creature you make into a free 1/1 with toxic 1, and that snowballs faster than opponents can answer it. Paired with Ashnod's Altar or slotted under Elesh Norn, the token stream converts into mana or board pressure so efficiently that a three-mana 2/3 undersells what it actually does.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01

Elesh Norn

67.5% of decks · synergy 0.65

Elesh Norn is the primary home — her triggered ability makes Phyrexians on every attack, and Mite Overseer converts each of those triggers into an additional 1/1 with toxic 1, doubling the poison pressure the deck is already trying to apply.

02
Brimaz, Blight of Oreskos

Brimaz, Blight of Oreskos

46.6% of decks · synergy 0.45

Brimaz, Blight of Oreskos generates Phyrexian tokens through combat and spell-cast triggers, and Mite Overseer guarantees every one of those tokens arrives as a free mite — keeping the board wide and the poison counters accumulating.

03
Mondrak, Glory Dominus

Mondrak, Glory Dominus

29.9% of decks · synergy 0.27

Mondrak, Glory Dominus doubles token creation across the board, and Mite Overseer's trigger fires on any Phyrexian creature entering, meaning the combination rapidly produces mite counts that overwhelm combat math.

04
Vishgraz, the Doomhive

Vishgraz, the Doomhive

25.7% of decks · synergy 0.25

Vishgraz, the Doomhive enters with three mites already in tow and rewards you for maintaining a poison-heavy board, so Mite Overseer plugs in as the engine that keeps mite production live on every subsequent creature that touches the battlefield.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Mite Overseer earns its slot — Phyrexian tribal and infect/toxic strategies have enough redundancy to fire its trigger consistently, and the mite tokens compound into a legitimate alternate win condition over a long game. In Modern and Pioneer it sits on the fringe, legal but competing with faster payoffs and lacking the tribal density to reliably trigger; it's not unplayable, but it needs the right shell to justify the slot. Legacy and Vintage offer even less support for the archetype, so Mite Overseer stays on the shelf there in practice despite being technically legal.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.40 bulk tier

At $0.40, Mite Overseer is firmly bulk — a near-zero barrier to entry for any Phyrexian deck that wants it. Bulk rares with genuine tribal combo potential tend to hold this floor and drift up when the archetype spikes in interest, but at this price the conversation about value is simple: just buy it.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.