Seer of Stolen Sight
Creature — Phyrexian Warlock
Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
Whenever one or more artifacts and/or creatures you control are put into a graveyard from the battlefield, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- March of the Machine
- Price
- $0.19
- EDHREC rank
- #19368
Seer of Stolen Sight enters, lets you look at an opponent's hand, then draws you a card — real card advantage stapled to intelligence gathering, all on a 3/2 body for four mana. The cost is the problem: four mana for a vanilla-statted creature that doesn't protect itself is a tough sell in any format where the bar for four-drops is high.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Seer of Stolen Sight occupies the low end of playable — the hand-peek is genuinely useful politics information, and replacing itself means you're not down a card, but four mana for a 3/2 with no evasion struggles to compete with dedicated draw spells that do more for less. In competitive Legacy, Modern, or Pioneer, it doesn't exist — those formats' four-drop slots demand immediate board impact or a game-ending effect, and Seer of Stolen Sight offers neither. Oathbreaker is the one fringe case where the hand information matters more, since knowing your opponent's plan in a compressed two-player-ish game can shift decisions meaningfully.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.19 bulk tier
At $0.19, Seer of Stolen Sight is bulk — you're not buying it for value, you're buying it because it fits a slot. Bulk commons and uncommons at this price point don't move unless something breaks them into a competitive archetype, and nothing on the horizon does that here.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.