Surveilling Sprite
Creature — Faerie Rogue
Flying
When this creature dies, you may draw a card.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Duel Decks: Ajani vs. Nicol Bolas
- Price
- $0.31
- EDHREC rank
- #21310
Surveilling Sprite trades itself into a free Surveil 2, which is a fine rate for a 1/1 flyer at two mana in formats that care about graveyard setup or library manipulation. The problem is Commander rarely wants a fragile body doing this work when enchantments and instants do it cheaper and repeatedly.
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 |
Surveilling Sprite is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but the formats where it actually earns a slot are narrow. In Pauper it's most at home, where commons that combine a body with graveyard setup have real currency and the surveil trigger on death can support self-mill or threshold strategies. In Commander, Surveilling Sprite competes against enchantments and activated abilities that surveil repeatedly for the same or less investment, so it's a fringe inclusion outside dedicated aristocrats or flicker shells. Legacy and Vintage have zero interest — the power ceiling is too high for a 1/1 that does this once.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.31 bulk tier
At $0.31, Surveilling Sprite is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard and postage, not the effect. Prices at this tier don't move unless a mechanic suddenly spikes in demand, and surveil has enough redundancy at common that this specific card has no catalyst for that.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.