Searchlight Companion
Artifact Creature — Drone
Flying
When this creature enters, create a 1/1 colorless Spirit creature token.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty
- Price
- $0.17
- EDHREC rank
- #18576
Searchlight Companion turns every attacking creature into a scry trigger, which is a real engine in go-wide or vehicle-heavy shells that want to smooth their draws mid-combat. The catch is the three-mana body — you're paying a meaningful slot cost, and the payoff only matters if you're already swinging with several creatures consistently. In Graaz, Unstoppable Juggernaut decks, that condition is almost always met, which is exactly why it shows up there.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Graaz, Unstoppable Juggernaut
Graaz, Unstoppable Juggernaut turns your whole board into attackers every combat, so Searchlight Companion's scry trigger fires en masse — you're filtering your draw step with every swing rather than incidentally, which keeps the gas flowing in a deck that wants to keep attacking through attrition.
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 |
Searchlight Companion is a Commander card through and through — the scry-per-attacker effect scales with board width, and 100-card singleton gives you the room to build around that. In Pauper, it's legal but competes in a format where three mana for a 1/3 with a conditional upside rarely makes the cut over more efficient commons. Modern, Pioneer, Legacy, and Vintage have no interest: the rate is too slow and the effect too incremental for competitive 60-card environments. Stick to Commander, and specifically to decks that already have a reason to be attacking with many creatures at once.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.17 bulk tier
At $0.17, Searchlight Companion is deep bulk — the kind of card you pull from a commons box rather than buy. Don't expect the price to move; the card has a narrow home and no crossover appeal in competitive formats.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.