Sima Yi, Wei Field Marshal
Legendary Creature — Human Soldier
Sima Yi's power is equal to the number of Swamps you control.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Treasure Chest
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #27386
Sima Yi, Wei Field Marshal is a evasive, self-pumping threat that gets genuinely dangerous in low-to-the-ground black or white shells — a 2/3 that can swing for five or six unblocked isn't nothing. The cost is that the pump condition (opponents having fewer cards) is situational and entirely outside your control, which makes him unreliable as a primary win condition.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Sima Yi, Wei Field Marshal is Commander-legal and that's where he's most at home, specifically as a piece in 99-card builds that care about hand-size pressure, discard, or Monarch and Initiative mechanics that drain opponent hands naturally. In Legacy and Vintage he's technically legal but competes with a card pool that ignores a 2/3 with conditional power-ups entirely — he won't see a sleeve in either format. Oathbreaker is the one fringe home where a cheap evasive creature with incremental upside can serve as signature-spell support, but he's still a niche pick there.
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Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data for Sima Yi, Wei Field Marshal isn't currently available, which likely places him in bulk or near-bulk territory given his narrow competitive application. If you're building a discard or hand-pressure Commander deck, pick him up cheaply at your local store rather than hunting singles online — he's not a card you should pay a premium for.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.