Sleep with the Fishes
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant creature
When this Aura enters, tap enchanted creature and you create a 1/1 blue Fish creature token with "This token can't be blocked."
Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Streets of New Capenna
- Price
- $0.14
- EDHREC rank
- #18898
Sleep with the Fishes kills a creature and leaves it tapped forever — two effects on one card for three mana at instant speed. It's not the most efficient removal in blue, but the enchantment-based lock is a real upside in decks that care about the graveyard or creature types attached to auras.
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 |
Sleep with the Fishes is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker — but it earns its slot almost exclusively in Commander, where the permanent tap has time to matter and enchantment synergies run deep. In Modern and Legacy, three mana at instant speed for a single creature is too slow against the threats those formats present; Path to Exile and Fatal Push do the same job faster and cheaper. Commander is where Sleep with the Fishes makes sense: multiplayer games go long, opponents can't easily remove an aura stapled to their own creature, and commanders like Bruvac the Grandiloquent or Tuvasa the Sunlit actively reward you for running it.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.14 bulk tier
At $0.14, Sleep with the Fishes is deep bulk — no budget justification needed. At that price it's a free inclusion experiment, though it won't appreciate; there's no shortage of printings and no competitive demand driving the floor up.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.