Old One Eye
Legendary Creature — Tyranid
Trample
Other creatures you control have trample.
When Old One Eye enters, create a 5/5 green Tyranid creature token.
Fast Healing — At the beginning of your first main phase, you may discard two cards. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Warhammer 40,000 Commander
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #6432
Old One Eye lands as a 6/6 trample that immediately spawns a 3/3 token and draws a card — that's three lines of value stapled to one body, and the death trigger means Nim Deathmantle loops are brutally clean. The Swarmlord decks run it at over 74% inclusion for good reason: it's one of the most efficient payoffs a Tyranid shell can assemble.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
The Swarmlord
The Swarmlord pairs with Old One Eye so naturally it borders on mandatory — the token trigger feeds Swarmlord's counters-matter engine, and the cantrip on death means you're never trading down when the creature gets answered.
Magus Lucea Kane
Magus Lucea Kane wants the biggest bodies it can copy, and Old One Eye's base power makes it an excellent doubling target — two triggers, two tokens, two cards drawn is the kind of excess that Lucea Kane shells are built to generate.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Old One Eye is a Commander card through and through — the multiplayer context is where a 6/6 trample with a token and a cantrip justifies seven mana. In Legacy and Vintage, where it's technically legal, the competition at that mana cost is absurdly stiff and nobody is casting it. Commander is the only format where Old One Eye is doing real work, specifically inside tyranid tribal and +1/+1 counter synergy shells where every trigger compounds.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Old One EyeNim DeathmantleAshnod's Altar
Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite sacrifice triggers
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Current price
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Pricing data for Old One Eye isn't currently available in the index, so check Scryfall or your preferred retailer for a live number. Given its 74% inclusion rate in The Swarmlord decks, demand is real — if you're building that commander, don't sleep on picking one up.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.