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Sleep-Cursed Faerie

Creature — Faerie Wizard

Flying, ward {2}
This creature enters tapped with three stun counters on it. (If it would become untapped, remove a stun counter from it instead.)
{1}{U}: Untap this creature.

CMC
1
Mana cost
{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
rare
Set
Wilds of Eldraine Promos
Price
$0.43
EDHREC rank
#14477
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Sleep-Cursed Faerie card art
Sleep-Cursed Faerie enters with three slumber counters that lock it down until you pay U to remove each one — a real cost, but one that combo decks treat as a feature rather than a bug because those counters make it a live target for Agatha's Soul Cauldron. Obyra, Dreaming Duelist turns every counter-removal trigger into a damage ping, so the Faerie's built-in counter suite becomes a three-shot engine the moment Obyra hits the table.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Obyra, Dreaming Duelist

Obyra, Dreaming Duelist

14.2% of decks · synergy 0.14

Obyra, Dreaming Duelist is the natural home: Sleep-Cursed Faerie's three slumber counters mean three separate removal triggers, translating directly into three pings at your opponents the moment you start paying the Faerie loose — a clean, repeatable source of damage that scales with any other counter manipulation you layer on top.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

In Commander, Sleep-Cursed Faerie is a niche role-player rather than a staple — it earns a slot in Faerie tribal builds or counter-manipulation strategies but doesn't demand inclusion outside those shells. Agatha's Soul Cauldron decks specifically want it as an activated-ability donor, since exiling the Faerie lets other creatures pay U to shed counters. In 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer, it hasn't carved out a competitive niche — a one-mana 3/1 flier that can't attack immediately sits awkward against tempo and aggro strategies that demand immediate impact. Legacy and Vintage have too much going on at one mana to bother. Sleep-Cursed Faerie is a Commander card through and through.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.43 bulk tier

At $0.43, Sleep-Cursed Faerie is firmly bulk — easy to pick up as a one- or two-of for any deck that actually wants it. Bulk rares with narrow applications rarely climb without a combo breakout, so don't expect movement unless Agatha's Soul Cauldron strategies push further into the spotlight.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.