Shipwreck Sentry
Creature — Human Pirate
Defender
As long as an artifact entered the battlefield under your control this turn, this creature can attack as though it didn't have defender.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The Lost Caverns of Ixalan
- Price
- $0.07
- EDHREC rank
- #23343
Shipwreck Sentry is a cheap, evasive body that replaces itself on death — the kind of recursive card advantage that tribal and sacrifice strategies quietly depend on. The cost is that it does nothing without other Pirates on board, making it a strict role-player rather than a standalone threat.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Shipwreck Sentry is purely a tribal inclusion — it belongs in Pirate decks and nowhere else, but in those shells the flying evasion and death trigger provide real consistency. Competitive constructed formats like Modern and Pioneer have enough one-drop competition that Shipwreck Sentry doesn't make the cut outside dedicated Pirate aggro, where it's a reasonable curve-filler. Pauper is where the card's ceiling is highest: commons-only battlefields make a recursive, evasive one-drop meaningfully harder to replace, and Pirate synergies are plentiful at that power level. Standard legality keeps it relevant for anyone building Pirates on Arena without a full collection, though its ceiling there is the same tribal niche.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.07 bulk tier
At $0.07, Shipwreck Sentry is deep bulk — you're picking up a playset for less than a dollar without thinking twice. Bulk commons with narrow tribal applications don't appreciate, so treat this as a pure utility pickup rather than anything worth speculating on.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.