Roofstalker Wight
Creature — Zombie
: This creature gains flying until end of turn.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BU
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Ravnica: Clue Edition
- Price
- $0.07
- EDHREC rank
- #30530
Roofstalker Wight is a 1/1 with flying and swampwalk for two mana — a floor-scraping body that trades a real evasion keyword for a conditional one. Run it only if your meta has enough Swamp-producing players to make swampwalk live; otherwise it's just an understatved flier.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Roofstalker Wight sees essentially no competitive play in Legacy, Vintage, or Modern — the power floor for two-mana creatures in those formats is far above what a 1/1 offers, even with evasion. In Pauper, swampwalk has occasional relevance against black-heavy decks, but there are strictly better two-drop options at common. Commander is where Roofstalker Wight has its best — if narrow — case: black is the most popular color on EDHREC, so swampwalk is almost always relevant at a four-player table, and flying on top makes it genuinely hard to block.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.07 bulk tier
At $0.07, Roofstalker Wight is deep bulk — you're paying essentially nothing for a slot. That price is stable simply because demand is near zero, not because it's a hidden gem.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.