Triarch Stalker
Artifact Creature — Necron
Targeting Relay — At the beginning of combat on your turn, choose an opponent.
Creatures attacking the last chosen player have menace.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Warhammer 40,000 Commander
- Price
- $0.34
- EDHREC rank
- #14257
Triarch Stalker forces every creature an opponent controls to lose its creature type and gain Necron, turning your tribal payoffs into a table-wide engine rather than a narrow synergy. The cost is real — it only works inside Warhammer 40,000 Necron tribal, and outside that shell it does nothing.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Imotekh the Stormlord
Imotekh the Stormlord wants every creature on the board counted as a Necron, and Triarch Stalker delivers exactly that — opposing creatures feed your lord effects and tribal triggers as if they were your own.
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 |
Triarch Stalker is a Commander card through and through — the Necron tribal engine it enables has no competitive analogue in Legacy or Vintage, where it's technically legal but irrelevant. Its entire design assumes a multiplayer board full of creatures to conscript, which makes the 60-card formats a non-starter even where the rules allow it. In Commander, it earns its slot exclusively in Necron tribal builds, most commonly under Imotekh the Stormlord, where spreading the Necron type across opponents' boards unlocks payoffs that would otherwise require you to go wide on your own.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.34 bulk tier
At $0.34, Triarch Stalker sits firmly in bulk territory, which makes sense for a card with a single viable home. It holds that floor comfortably — demand is narrow but consistent within Necron tribal, so don't expect it to spike or crater.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.