Dream Eater
- Mana cost
- {4}{U}{U}
- Type
- Creature — Nightmare Sphinx
- Power / toughness
- 4 / 3
- Set
- Guilds of Ravnica #38 (mythic)
- Price
- $0.36 USD
Flash
Flying
When this creature enters, surveil 4. When you do, you may return target nonland permanent an opponent controls to its owner's hand. (To surveil 4, look at the top four cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)
Dream Eater has 3 printings, first in Guilds of Ravnica (2018). EDHREC ranks it #8,690 among Commander cards. It appears most in Mirko, Obsessive Theorist decks (4,098 on EDHREC). 2 public decks on TCG run it. It has 4 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Public decks that run Dream Eater
- Miracle Worker - Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander, led by Aminatou, Veil Piercer
- Revenant Recon - Murders at Karlov Manor Commander, led by Mirko, Obsessive Theorist
Commanders that run Dream Eater most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Mirko, Obsessive Theorist: 4,098 decks
- The Ur-Sphinx: 1,693 decks
- Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign: 1,457 decks
- Aminatou, Veil Piercer: 1,310 decks
- Ultimecia, Time Sorceress // Ultimecia, Omnipotent: 128 decks
- Isperia, Supreme Judge: 85 decks
- Geist of Saint Thalia: 36 decks
- Azor, the Lawbringer: 32 decks
Often played with Dream Eater
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : Dream Eater's triggered ability goes on the stack without a target. While that ability is resolving, after you've surveilled, the reflexive triggered ability triggers and you pick a target nonland permanent to be returned to its owner's hand. This is different from effects that say "If you do . . ." in that you choose the target after having surveilled.
- : Dream Eater's reflexive triggered ability triggers even if you have fewer than four cards in your library to surveil.
- : When you surveil, you may put all the cards you look at back on top of your library, you may put all of those cards into your graveyard, or you may put some of those cards on top and the rest of them into your graveyard.
- : You perform the actions stated on a card in sequence. For some spells and abilities, you'll surveil last. For others, you'll surveil and then perform other actions.