Wary Thespian
Creature — Cat Druid
When this creature enters or dies, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- March of the Machine
- Price
- $0.04
- EDHREC rank
- #18217
Wary Thespian is a 2/3 that enters tapped and gains deathtouch whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control — a decent blocker in landfall decks, dead weight everywhere else. The enter-tapped clause is a real cost for a creature that otherwise asks you to build around it.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Wary Thespian is a Commander card through and through — specifically, a landfall-matters Commander card. In a Lonis, Cryptozoologist or Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait shell that hits multiple land drops per turn, Wary Thespian can chain deathtouch triggers into a genuine deterrent, but it still has to survive long enough to matter. In competitive 60-card formats — Modern, Pioneer, Legacy — it doesn't come close to seeing play; deathtouch creatures in those formats either cost less, hit harder, or do something the turn they enter. Pauper is where it might scrape into a budget landfall list, but even there the competition at two mana is stiff.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.04 bulk tier
At $0.04, Wary Thespian is deep bulk — the kind of card you pick up as a throw-in rather than seek out. That price is stable because demand is narrow; it won't spike unless a future commander makes repeated landfall deathtouch specifically powerful.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.