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Narcomoeba

Creature — Illusion

Flying
When this card is put into your graveyard from your library, you may put it onto the battlefield.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Future Sight
Price
$0.92
EDHREC rank
#14663
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Narcomoeba card art
Narcomoeba does nothing on its own — its entire value is the triggered ability that puts it onto the battlefield from the graveyard when milled. In any deck running Cephalid Illusionist, it's a free body that appears mid-combo without spending a mana or a card.

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

Narcomoeba sees essentially zero play as a standalone threat — a 1/1 flyer for two is unplayable on rate. Its home is graveyard-centric combo, and in Commander that means self-mill engines where the free creature entry fuels sacrifice outlets or Dread Return flashback. In Legacy, it slots into dedicated Cephalid Breakfast lists as a core piece. Modern and Pioneer have the rules overhead to run it in mill-adjacent shells, but the combos those formats support are faster and less reliant on Narcomoeba specifically, so it stays fringe there.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.92 bulk tier

At $0.92, Narcomoeba sits at the top of bulk pricing — cheap enough to throw in speculatively, but it doesn't move unless you're actively building around self-mill. Demand is narrow enough that the price is stable rather than climbing.

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