Overlord of the Mistmoors
Enchantment Creature — Avatar Horror
Impending 4—
(If you cast this spell for its impending cost, it enters with four time counters and isn't a creature until the last is removed. At the beginning of your end step, remove a time counter from it.)
Whenever this permanent enters or attacks, create two 2/1 white Insect creature tokens with flying.
- CMC
- 7
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Duskmourn: House of Horror Promos
- Price
- $5.31
- EDHREC rank
- #4346
Overlord of the Mistmoors lands and immediately floods the board with lifelink fliers — one trigger per opponent on entry means three 1/1 tokens in a four-player pod before anyone untaps. The cost is seven mana, which is real, but Niko, Light of Hope and similar blink-and-flicker commanders treat that enter-the-battlefield clause as a repeatable engine rather than a one-time investment.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Niko, Light of Hope
Niko, Light of Hope generates Shard tokens that flicker your own permanents, and Overlord of the Mistmoors is exactly the kind of high-impact ETB those flickers want to reset — every bounce refills the sky with lifelink bodies and fuels Niko's life-gain synergies simultaneously.
Zur, Eternal Schemer
Zur, Eternal Schemer animates enchantments as creatures, and an Orzhov shell built around him wants both evasive threats and life-gain payoffs — Overlord of the Mistmoors delivers flying tokens that check both boxes while padding your life total against the aggro decks Zur often draws hate from.
Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd
Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd blinks creatures for value, and Overlord of the Mistmoors is one of the highest-yield targets available: each flicker by Phelia in a four-player game nets three more lifelink fliers, compounding the board state faster than almost any other single creature.
Yuna, Hope of Spira
Yuna, Hope of Spira cares about Aeons — summon-mechanic creatures with powerful enter-the-battlefield effects — and Overlord of the Mistmoors fits that profile exactly, giving Yuna a repeatable token-flood payoff that also advances the life-gain and flying-tribal subthemes common in her builds.
Victor, Valgavoth's Seneschal
Victor, Valgavoth's Seneschal rewards you for gaining life and going wide simultaneously, and Overlord of the Mistmoors does both: the lifelink tokens it produces trigger Victor's payoffs while building the wide board he needs to threaten lethal damage.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Overlord of the Mistmoors is built to live — the ETB trigger fires once per opponent, so the card scales directly with pod size and rewards the longer, multiplayer games the format produces. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer it's simply too slow at seven mana, and the token count drops to one per trigger in a heads-up game, gutting the card's core value proposition. Legacy and Vintage are legal but offer nothing to make a seven-mana vanilla-ish creature competitive there. Standard is the one 60-card exception worth noting: if a life-gain or token-tempo shell exists in the format at the time, Overlord of the Mistmoors can close games, though it remains a finisher rather than an engine in that context.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
Serra Angel is the floor — five mana for a single flying lifelink body with no ETB — but the gap between it and Overlord of the Mistmoors is large enough that it's barely the same role. Angelic Accord or Regal Bloodlord come closer by generating flying tokens off life-gain triggers, trading Overlord of the Mistmoors's immediate board impact for a cheaper, sustained token engine that rewards the same strategic direction.
Price Context
Current price
$5.31 mid tier
At $5.31, Overlord of the Mistmoors sits in the mid tier — expensive enough to feel like a deliberate slot, cheap enough that it's not a barrier for most Commander players. It sees play in multiple high-volume commanders and hasn't spiked dramatically, so the price reflects genuine demand rather than hype, making it a reasonable pickup for any deck that can use it.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.