Thalakos Mistfolk
Creature — Thalakos Illusion
Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)
: Put this creature on top of its owner's library.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Tempest
- Price
- $0.17
- EDHREC rank
- #27457
Thalakos Mistfolk is a two-mana 1/1 with shadow and a counterspell stapled to it — the cost is that countering requires returning it to your hand, so you're trading board presence for interaction. It's a niche role-player, not a staple, and it earns a slot only in decks that want to abuse the bounce trigger itself.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Thalakos Mistfolk is too fragile to be a reliable counterspell and too low-impact as a creature, but it finds a home in decks that trigger on spells returning to hand or on creatures entering the battlefield repeatedly. Legacy and Vintage have better counterspells at every point on the curve, so it sees no meaningful play there. Pauper is its most plausible competitive context, where shadow creatures and flicker-adjacent effects have historically punched above their weight, though it still sits on the fringe.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.17 bulk tier
At $0.17, Thalakos Mistfolk is bulk — buy it without thinking if the synergy applies to your deck. Price movement is unlikely in either direction; it's an old, narrow card with a small ceiling on demand.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.