Wick's Patrol
Creature — Rat Warlock
When this creature enters, mill three cards. When you do, target creature an opponent controls gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the greatest mana value among cards in your graveyard.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Bloomburrow
- Price
- $0.15
- EDHREC rank
- #14350
Wick's Patrol puts a 3/3 body on the board while surveilling 2, letting you filter your draws and stock the graveyard in one motion. Three mana for that combination of stats and selection is a fair rate, and any deck that cares about the graveyard or +1/+1 counters gets real work out of 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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Wick's Patrol earns its slot in graveyard-value decks and self-mill strategies where surveil 2 is a repeatable setup tool rather than a consolation prize. In Standard and Pioneer, the competition at three mana is steep, but the card finds a home in slower, grind-oriented shell that want bodies and graveyard depth simultaneously. Modern and Legacy have no patience for a vanilla 3/3 with upside — the surveil doesn't move the needle when the format moves faster than turn three. Oathbreaker mirrors the Commander calculus: the card is playable when the deck actually wants cards in the graveyard, irrelevant otherwise.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.15 bulk tier
At $0.15, Wick's Patrol sits firmly in bulk territory — the kind of card you pick up as a throw-in without thinking twice. Bulk commons and uncommons at this price point don't appreciate unless a new interaction pushes them into competitive visibility, so treat this as a cheap role-player, not a spec target.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.