Viscerid Deepwalker
Creature — Homarid Warrior
: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
Suspend 4— (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay and exile it with four time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost. It has haste.)
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $0.02
- EDHREC rank
- #27362
Viscerid Deepwalker is a five-mana 3/3 that gains shroud until end of turn when you pay one blue — a minor defensive trick stapled to an aggressively mediocre body. The cost is opportunity: every slot it occupies is a slot a better threat, enabler, or answer isn't.
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 |
Viscerid Deepwalker is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legality and playability are different things. In Pauper, where commons compete hardest for slots, a five-mana 3/3 with a conditional, temporary shroud ability doesn't clear the bar for any established archetype. In Commander, the format most tolerant of slow, expensive creatures, Viscerid Deepwalker still lacks the power, synergy, or uniqueness to justify inclusion — shroud until end of turn doesn't protect against wraths, doesn't generate value, and doesn't threaten the board. Legacy and Vintage don't even warrant the conversation.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.02 bulk tier
At $0.02, Viscerid Deepwalker is pure bulk — the price reflects demand, which is effectively none. It holds no value and isn't likely to; pick it up only if a very specific tribal or threshold brew calls for it, and even then, something better probably exists at the same price point.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.