Wary Watchdog

Creature — Dog

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
{1}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
common
Set
Duskmourn: House of Horror
Price
$0.18
EDHREC rank
#15923
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Wary Watchdog card art
Wary Watchdog is a one-mana 1/3 vigilance creature that blanks small attackers and keeps your life total intact while you set up — the stats are modest but the efficiency is real. Outside of Sophia, Dogged Detective builds where it doubles as a clue-generating engine, it rarely earns a slot.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Sophia, Dogged Detective

Sophia, Dogged Detective

28.8% of decks · synergy 0.28

Wary Watchdog is a natural fit for Sophia, Dogged Detective because every time it survives combat or blocks, Sophia's triggered ability generates clues, turning a cheap defensive body into a recurring card-advantage machine.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander
legacy
modern
pioneer
standard
vintage
pauper
oathbreaker

In Commander, Wary Watchdog is a role-player in exactly one archetype: Sophia, Dogged Detective, where the clue synergy justifies the roster spot. In Pauper it has no competitive home — one-mana vigilance bodies need to either advance an aggro clock or generate immediate value, and this does neither without a specific payoff. Standard, Pioneer, and Modern have no current shell that wants a 1/3 vigilance for one without an enters-the-battlefield effect. Wary Watchdog is a Commander-only card in practice, and even there it's narrowly slotted.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.18 bulk tier

At $0.18, Wary Watchdog is deep bulk — you're picking it out of a common box, not tracking it on a buylist. Bulk commons tied to a single commander archetype don't appreciate meaningfully, so grab it if you need it and don't think twice about the cost.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.