Pilgrim's Eye
Artifact Creature — Thopter
Flying
When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Commander Anthology
- Price
- $0.17
- EDHREC rank
- #4584
Pilgrim's Eye enters, fetches any basic, and leaves you with a 1/1 flier — net effect is a Traveler's Amulet stapled to a body, for three mana. Outside of Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker and similar recursion shells that squeeze value from the death trigger, cheaper options like Solemn Simulacrum do the same job better.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker
Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker brings Pilgrim's Eye back every end step it dies, turning a one-time land fetch into a repeating engine that thins your deck and triggers any death-matters payoffs you have in play.
Kangee, Sky Warden
Kangee, Sky Warden cares about the number of Birds in play, and Pilgrim's Eye is a colorless-castable Bird that also smooths your mana — it earns its slot by pulling double duty as both a tribal body and a land fixer in a two-color deck.
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci copies artifacts, and Pilgrim's Eye is an artifact creature — copying it means multiple landfall triggers and multiple bodies, which compounds quickly when Leonardo da Vinci has enough Mana to keep the engine running.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Pilgrim's Eye occupies the bottom tier of artifact ramp: it's colorless, fetchable by artifact tutors, and leaves a relevant body, but three mana for a basic land is below the curve when Solemn Simulacrum exists at the same cost with more upside. Pilgrim's Eye earns real consideration only in recursion-heavy builds or tribal lists where the creature type matters. In Pauper, the competition is thinner and a 1/1 flier with landfix is more meaningful, making it occasionally playable in artifact synergy shells. In constructed formats like Modern and Pioneer, Pilgrim's Eye sees essentially no play — the effect is too slow and the body too small to matter at those power levels.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.17 bulk tier
At $0.17, Pilgrim's Eye is deep bulk — the kind of card you pull from a common box rather than buy. Price stability is a non-issue; it will sit at this floor indefinitely unless a recursion commander drives a sudden spike in demand.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.