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Otherworldly Escort

Creature — Human Detective

Flash
When this creature dies, if it's not a Spirit, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with four charge counters on it. It's a Spirit Detective. (It's no longer a Human.)
{1}{W}, {T}, Remove a charge counter from this creature: Destroy target creature that dealt damage to you this turn.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{3}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
rare
Set
Murders at Karlov Manor Commander
Price
$0.20
EDHREC rank
#18695
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Otherworldly Escort card art
Otherworldly Escort drops a 4/3 with ward 2 and immediately changes creature types across your whole board — that's a free tribal-switch stapled to a body, and it opens up synergies that would otherwise require dedicated support cards like Amoeboid Changeling. The cost is real: five mana for a 4/3 is not efficient rate, and the type-change only matters if your deck is built around a specific creature type that Escort can unlock.

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Nelly Borca, Impulsive Accuser

Nelly Borca, Impulsive Accuser

19.9% of decks · synergy 0.19

Nelly Borca, Impulsive Accuser cares about Vampires attacking and tapping your opponents' creatures, and Otherworldly Escort turns your entire board into Vampires on entry — meaning a previously off-tribe creature suddenly qualifies for every Vampire payoff Nelly Borca provides without any additional setup.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Otherworldly Escort is a Commander card through and through — the effect only scales once you have enough creatures on board to make a mass type-change meaningful, and that kind of wide board state happens most reliably in 100-card singleton games. In Legacy and Vintage, where it's technically legal, it simply doesn't compete: five mana for a 4/3 with a situational tribal effect isn't close to the power bar in those formats. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander 60-card-adjacent format where Otherworldly Escort could show up in a tribal shell, but that's a narrow case. Take Otherworldly Escort out of Commander and it has almost no reason to exist.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.20 bulk tier

At $0.20, Otherworldly Escort is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not scarcity. It's a safe pick-up for any tribal Commander deck that wants the effect, and there's no reason to expect meaningful price movement on a narrow five-drop from a recent set.

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