Street Wraith
Creature — Wraith
Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)
Cycling—Pay 2 life. (Pay 2 life, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Masters 25
- Price
- $0.32
- EDHREC rank
- #5380
Street Wraith does nothing on the battlefield — a 3/4 swampwalk creature you will almost never cast — but that's not why it's in the deck. The cycling cost of two life makes it a free cantrip in any deck that needs to move through cards or trigger discard effects, and Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar in particular treats it as pure fuel.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar
Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar requires you to have discarded a card with mana value 6 or greater to cast her for free, and Street Wraith — with a mana value of 5, just under the threshold — is more commonly cycled to enable her discard-matters triggers than cast; she appears in 28% of lists running the Wraith precisely because it's one of the cheapest ways to spin through the deck while feeding her engine.
Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow
Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow flips cards off the top for damage equal to their mana value, and Street Wraith's mana value of 5 makes it one of the more impactful hits — cycling it away when you don't need the body keeps your hand moving while leaving high-value cards available for Yuriko triggers.
Sharuum the Hegemon
Sharuum the Hegemon decks often run artifact-heavy, combo-oriented lists that prize consistency above almost everything else, and Street Wraith earns its slot there as a zero-net-cost way to dig toward combo pieces without spending a spell slot.
Oskar, Rubbish Reclaimer
Oskar, Rubbish Reclaimer triggers whenever you discard a nonland card, so Street Wraith's cycle is a clean one-card activation — pay two life, draw a card, trigger Oskar, cast the Wraith from the graveyard for free if you have the mana.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Street Wraith is a role-player in specific archetypes — discard-matters, graveyard-value, and high-CMC-flip commanders — rather than a universal staple. In Legacy and Vintage, it's historically been a staple in decks like Dredge and various shadow-creature shells, where the two-life cycle is essentially a free card in a format where games end fast. Modern sees similar use in Living End and Death's Shadow strategies, where paying life is an asset rather than a liability. Pauper is the one format where Street Wraith shows up more broadly, since free cycling at common is a genuinely powerful effect at that card-quality ceiling.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.32 bulk tier
At $0.32, Street Wraith sits firmly in bulk territory and has for years despite consistent competitive demand across multiple formats. It's a safe pickup — the price floor is about as low as it gets for a card with real tournament history.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.