Sinkhole Surveyor card art

Sinkhole Surveyor

Creature — Bird Scout MV 2

Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.

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What it doesRulingsIn the 99Every version

What it does

Flying

Whenever this creature attacks, you lose 1 life and this creature endures 1. (Put a +1/+1 counter on it or create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token.)

Rulings

3 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2025-04-04

    You choose whether to put +1/+1 counters on the creature or create a Spirit token as the ability that includes the endure instruction is resolving. No player may take actions between the time you choose and the time that counters are added or tokens are created.

  • 2025-04-04

    If you can’t put +1/+1 counters on the creature for any reason as an endure ability resolves (for example, if the creature is no longer on the battlefield), you’ll just create a Spirit token.

  • 2025-04-04

    If a noncreature permanent is instructed to endure, the effect is the same. You can put +1/+1 counters on that permanent or create a Spirit token.

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Sinkhole Surveyor, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 3
Games played 0
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games — not enough to publish a rate yet.
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Sahir, Visitor in Darkness 1 0 —
Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Mono-Black 2 decks

Every version of Sinkhole Surveyor

4 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly — a printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall genuinely publishes none for some of them.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Sinkhole Surveyor — a name search across every version, for the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.

Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only — no individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.