Suq'Ata Lancer
Creature — Human Knight
Haste
Flanking (Whenever a creature without flanking blocks this creature, the blocking creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Dominaria Remastered
- Price
- $0.04
- EDHREC rank
- #26277
Suq'Ata Lancer is a 2/2 haste creature for three mana that requires you to discard a card to give it flying until end of turn — a steep cost for a marginal body. The ceiling is a 2/2 flying haste attacker on turn three, which simply isn't competitive with what other three-drops accomplish.
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 |
Suq'Ata Lancer is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but that breadth of legality doesn't translate to playability in any of them. In Pauper, where commons are judged harshly on efficiency, a three-mana 2/2 that costs a card in hand to gain flying gets outclassed by nearly every aggressive alternative. In Commander, 100-card singleton dilutes the already narrow use case — haste is available on better bodies, and looting effects belong on permanents that generate value beyond a single attack. Suq'Ata Lancer occupies no meaningful role in any format where it's legal.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.04 bulk tier
At $0.04, Suq'Ata Lancer is deep bulk — the kind of card that costs more to ship than to buy. There's no trajectory that changes that; demand doesn't exist at any competitive level to move the needle.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.