Warteye Witch
Creature — Goblin Shaman
Whenever this creature or another creature you control dies, scry 1.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Modern Horizons
- Price
- $0.14
- EDHREC rank
- #16305
Warteye Witch enters the battlefield and immediately trades scry for power — every creature death while it's in play becomes a scry 1, letting you stack your deck in real time. The two-mana cost is trivial, and in sacrifice-heavy shells this card does serious filtering work; Grenzo, Dungeon Warden in particular wants the lowest power creature on the bottom of the library, and Warteye Witch feeds that engine constantly.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Grenzo, Dungeon Warden
Grenzo, Dungeon Warden wins by bottoming high-power creatures and then flipping them into play, and Warteye Witch turns every sacrifice or incidental death into a free scry 1 — meaning you're sculpting exactly what Grenzo sees on every activation rather than gambling blind.
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 |
Warteye Witch is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but Commander is the format where it earns its slot. In 100-card singleton, creature deaths happen constantly and the cumulative scry value compounds in ways that 60-card formats simply don't support. In Pauper it's technically playable in aristocrats builds, but the format moves faster and single-use effects at two mana face higher competition. Legacy and Vintage have access to far more powerful filtering, so Warteye Witch doesn't show up there in practice.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.14 bulk tier
At $0.14, Warteye Witch is deep bulk — you pick it up as an afterthought in a trade binder or toss it into a cart to hit free shipping. Bulk commons at this price point don't appreciate meaningfully unless they spike in a specific meta, and a niche Commander role keeps that ceiling low, so buy it to play it and don't think twice about the cost.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.