Sightless Brawler
Enchantment Creature — Human Warrior
Bestow (If you cast this card for its bestow cost, it's an Aura spell with enchant creature. It becomes a creature again if it's not attached.)
This creature can't attack alone.
Enchanted creature gets +3/+2 and can't attack alone.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Journey into Nyx
- Price
- $0.04
- EDHREC rank
- #26552
Sightless Brawler is a 3/2 lifelinker for one white mana — one of the most efficient stats-per-mana creatures in the game — with the hard constraint that it must attack each combat if able and can only do so when paired with another creature. That rider makes it a support piece, not a standalone, but in any deck running auras, equipment, or go-wide strategies that guarantee an attack partner, the cost is trivial.
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, Sightless Brawler finds its best home in white aggro builds — Voltron, go-wide token strategies, and life-total-matters decks that want cheap, high-power bodies to suit up or sacrifice. The attack restriction is nearly irrelevant when you're already swinging with a full board. In competitive non-rotating formats like Legacy and Vintage, it's too narrow to see real play — one white mana for a 3/2 lifelink is appealing, but the built-in dependency makes it worse than comparable one-drops in dedicated aggro shells. Modern and Pioneer offer the most realistic constructed homes, specifically in white weenie or auras builds where Sightless Brawler can pair with Slippery Bogle-style targets or token generators on turn one to come online immediately.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.04 bulk tier
At $0.04, Sightless Brawler is bulk by any measure — you can pick up a playset for the price of a pack of gum. Bulk commons and uncommons at this price point rarely move unless a deck breaks them in a competitive format, so don't expect appreciation, but there's no financial reason not to own a stack of them.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.