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Watcher of the Roost

Creature — Bird Soldier

Flying
Morph—Reveal a white card in your hand. (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)
When this creature is turned face up, you gain 2 life.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Ugin's Fate
Price
$0.17
EDHREC rank
#28642
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Watcher of the Roost card art
Watcher of the Roost flips a creature card from your hand face-up to gain 2 life — low-impact on its own, but in Yedora, Grave Gardener decks it becomes a repeatable engine that converts face-down Forest tokens back into creatures while generating life along the way. The cost is a two-mana 2/1 body that does nothing without support, so it earns its slot only in dedicated morph or Yedora shells.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Watcher of the Roost sees virtually no play in competitive formats — Modern, Legacy, and Pioneer have no shell that wants a 2/1 life-gain trigger at two mana. Commander is where it actually lives, specifically in Yedora, Grave Gardener builds and any morph-matters strategy that rewards repeated face-up triggers. Outside those specific pairings, it sits on the bench even in Commander — the effect is too narrow to slot into a generic white deck.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.17 bulk tier

At $0.17, Watcher of the Roost is deep bulk — pick it up for pennies if you need it, and don't expect that to change. Demand is too niche to push the price anywhere meaningful.

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