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Pestered Wellguard

Creature — Merfolk Soldier

Whenever this creature becomes tapped, create a 1/1 blue and black Faerie creature token with flying.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{3}{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Lorwyn Eclipsed
Price
$0.15
EDHREC rank
#18246
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Pestered Wellguard card art
Pestered Wellguard enters with a ward-like tax that makes opponents pay 2 life every time they target it — cheap protection on a body that combo decks exploit immediately. The ceiling is a two-card infinite loop with Intruder Alarm, and the floor is a 1/4 that blankets itself against spot removal for free.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Pestered Wellguard is almost exclusively a Commander card — the formats where it's legal but irrelevant (Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy) have no use for a slow, tap-based combo creature when faster, more redundant engines exist. In Commander, it earns its slot in any deck that generates mana or tokens through tapping creatures, where the Intruder Alarm line turns it into a game-ending engine rather than a vanilla blocker.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

28 decks
Pestered WellguardIntruder AlarmInga and Esika

Pestered WellguardIntruder AlarmInga and Esika

Infinite colored mana that can only be spent to cast creature spells; Infinite creature tokens; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce; Infinite untap of creatures; Infinite untap of creatures you control; Infinite ETB

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Price Context

Current price

$0.15 bulk tier

At $0.15, Pestered Wellguard is deep bulk — pick up as many as you need without a second thought. Combo staples at this price point tend to tick up if the line gets discovered by a wider audience, but right now it's a free include.

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