Reclusive Wight
Creature — Zombie Minion
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control another nonland permanent, sacrifice this creature.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Urza's Saga
- Price
- $0.18
- EDHREC rank
- #30357
Reclusive Wight enters as a 4/3 lifelinker for three mana — solid stats — but it shuts itself off the moment you control another creature, losing all abilities and becoming a vanilla body. Run it only in dedicated mono-creature-free builds or as a sacrifice fodder piece you never intend to keep.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Reclusive Wight is a Commander card in practice, and even there the audience is narrow — you want a deck that consistently operates with few or no other creatures on board, which points to aristocrats shells that sacrifice it immediately or spellslinger lists that treat it as a cheap lifelink blocker with an expiration date. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but irrelevant; three mana for a conditionally powered creature doesn't compete at those tables. The card has no path into Modern, Pioneer, Standard, or Pauper, so the Commander use case is the only one worth thinking about.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.18 bulk tier
At $0.18, Reclusive Wight is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not scarcity. That price won't climb without a breakout deck proving the conditional-creature restriction is a feature rather than a bug, and that scenario looks unlikely.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.