Piranha Fly
Creature — Fish Insect
Flying
This creature enters tapped.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Duskmourn: House of Horror
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #24498
Piranha Fly is a 1/1 flying deathtouch for two mana — the deathtouch makes it a credible blocker and a threat that trades up, but a 1/1 body with no enters-the-battlefield effect is a hard sell in most powered lists. Playable in dedicated flying or deathtouch synergy builds; a bench card everywhere else.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Piranha Fly earns a slot only in narrow tribal or deathtouch-matters shells — think Chevill, Bane of Monsters or a Skullclamp-heavy aristocrats build where even a 1/1 trades favorably. In Pauper, flying deathtouch at common is a real keyword combination, but two mana for a 1/1 with no immediate board impact loses to almost every other threat in the format. Piranha Fly is legal across the board — Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage — and irrelevant in all of them; the card simply doesn't scale to any of those environments.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Piranha Fly is deep bulk — you're paying for the cardboard, not any demand. That price is stable by default: there's no competitive application that would move it, so it neither rises nor falls.
Explore
Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.