The Meep
Legendary Creature — Alien
Ward—Pay 3 life.
Whenever The Meep attacks, you may sacrifice another creature. If you do, creatures you control have base power and toughness X/X until end of turn, where X is the sacrificed creature's mana value.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Secret Lair Drop
- Price
- $25.87
- EDHREC rank
- #18832
The Meep turns every instant and sorcery into a free loot — draw a card, discard a card — which means a spell-heavy deck generates card selection on autopilot without spending extra mana. At two mana for a 1/1, the body is irrelevant; the engine is everything.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is the natural home for The Meep — spellslinger commanders that cast a high volume of instants and sorceries each turn cycle extract the most value from the looting trigger, and the low cost means it comes down before the game accelerates. Legacy and Vintage are legal but uninterested: the effect is powerful at the kitchen table scale, not at the rate those formats demand from a two-mana creature with one toughness. The Meep is a Commander-specific card in practice, and in that format it earns its slot in any deck that reliably casts three or more spells per round.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
The Meep's closest functional cousins are creatures like Frantic Search effects stapled to bodies, but no single cheap card replicates free looting on every spell — the honest answer is that nothing under a few dollars does exactly this job. Thrill of Possibility and similar cantrip-adjacent spells fill the selection role at near-zero cost, but they demand mana and a card slot each time rather than riding passively on your existing gameplan.
Price Context
Current price
$25.87 premium tier
At $25.87, The Meep sits in premium territory for a utility creature, which reflects genuine demand from Commander spellslinger builds rather than hype. It's a narrow card with a concentrated audience, so the price is unlikely to collapse, but it won't climb dramatically either — buy it when you need it, not as a spec.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.