Murktide Regent
Creature — Dragon
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for 
.)
Flying
This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it for each instant and sorcery card exiled with it.
Whenever an instant or sorcery card leaves your graveyard, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
- CMC
- 7
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Secret Lair Promo
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #14677
Murktide Regent lands as a massive flying threat for one or two blue mana in any deck that fills its graveyard with instants and sorceries, and it only gets bigger as more spells exile. It is one of the most efficient threats ever printed for blue-heavy spell-slinger shells — the floor is rarely below a 6/6, and the ceiling is absurd.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Modern is where Murktide Regent has made its biggest mark, functioning as the primary win condition in Izzet and Grixis Murktide lists that treat every cantrip as both setup and fuel. In Legacy it competes with a deeper field of broken threats but still sees play in tempo and delver strategies that can consistently exile four-plus cards before turn three. Commander is a trickier fit — the singleton format slows graveyard density and makes a 99-card deck work harder to hit the critical mass of instants and sorceries Murktide needs, so it belongs in dedicated spellslinger builds rather than as a generic include. Vintage legal but rarely prioritized there; the format's combo density means a 6/6 flier often isn't the fastest path to winning.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
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Pricing data isn't available in the current context, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for a live number. Murktide Regent has historically commanded a premium as a four-of staple in competitive Modern, so expect a meaningful price tag — verify before buying.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.