Watcher in the Mist
Creature — Spirit
Flying
When this creature enters, surveil 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Guilds of Ravnica
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #26961
Watcher in the Mist enters as a 3/4 flyer with surveil 2, giving you immediate card selection and graveyard setup for five mana. The rate is unexciting in most shells, but any deck that rewards surveil triggers turns that enter-the-battlefield effect into a genuine engine piece.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Watcher in the Mist is a pauper-legal common, and that's where it does the most work — surveil-matters lists in Dimir can chain it with other cheap surveil payoffs to filter aggressively on a budget. In Commander, five mana for a 3/4 with surveil 2 rarely makes the cut outside dedicated surveil builds, where commanders like Lazav, the Multifarious or Phenax, God of Deception reward stacking the graveyard. Competitive non-rotating formats like Modern and Legacy simply have faster, cheaper options that obsolete it entirely.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Watcher in the Mist is pure bulk — grab a playset out of a common box without thinking twice. Don't expect that floor to move; it's a vanilla-feeling common with narrow application, and reprint risk in any future Dimir set would keep it there indefinitely.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.