Sharkey, Tyrant of the Shire
Legendary Creature — Avatar Rogue
Activated abilities of lands your opponents control can't be activated unless they're mana abilities.
Sharkey has all activated abilities of lands your opponents control except mana abilities.
Mana of any type can be spent to activate Sharkey's abilities.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BU
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth
- Price
- $0.24
- EDHREC rank
- #19216
Sharkey, Tyrant of the Shire taxes every spell your opponents cast that shares a name with a card in any graveyard — a passive drain engine that punishes the redundancy most Commander decks are built on. The cost is narrow tribal identity: you need Saruman's influence to make the effect stick, and the payoff scales entirely with how much your table recycles the same card names.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Sharkey, Tyrant of the Shire does real work — 100-card singleton pools mean opponents regularly cast spells matching names in four graveyards, and the drain adds up fast in longer games. In Legacy and Vintage he's legal but strictly outclassed; neither format wants a three-mana creature with a conditional life-drain when the game is decided by turn two or three. Oathbreaker offers a middle ground where the graveyard fills faster and the 20-life starting total makes each drain point matter more, though the format's smaller playerbase limits how often you'll actually sleeve him up.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.24 bulk tier
At $0.24, Sharkey, Tyrant of the Shire is bulk — easy to pick up as a throw-in or collection add without a second thought. Bulk rares with conditional effects rarely climb unless a supported archetype breaks out, so don't expect appreciation, but at this price the risk is zero.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.