Thought-Stalker Warlock BLB 0118 · uncommon
Thought-Stalker Warlock · {2}{B} · Creature — Lizard Warlock · Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.) When this creature enters, choose target opponent. If they lost life this turn, they reveal their hand, you choose a nonland card from it, and they discard that card. Otherwise, they discard a card. · Power / toughness: 2/2
- Price
- from $0.201 printing
- Win rate
- 61.0% GIH 60,421 instances · Premier Draft
Jul 30–Sep 3, 2024 · 17Lands - Draft
- ◆ Key pickAfter the opponent loses life, choose their discarded nonland card instead of letting them choose.
- Job
- Payoffs
Game-in-hand win rate, all deck colors. 36,828 wins in 60,421 card-in-hand instances.
56,194 distinct games · 18,982 distinct drafts · games recorded Jul 30–Sep 3, 2024.
17Lands file dated Sep 6, 2024 · 100-instance minimum · 17Lands public data ↗
After the opponent loses life, choose their discarded nonland card instead of letting them choose.
How this changes your picks
Rules-derived- Take it when
- Deal damage early, then spend the second main phase on cards that reward an opponent losing life. Look for support such as Ravine Raider and Flamecache Gecko.
- What to take next
- An unblocked Raider can enable Gecko’s mana refund, allowing another spell after combat.
- Wrong pick
- Gecko gives mana only if the opponent already lost life this turn. Fireglass’s exiled card must be used before the turn ends.
- Mana & splash
- Count the colored sources needed to cast this card on time; a synergy payoff is not a reason to weaken an otherwise consistent mana base.
Support cards
3Interactions from the card text, not a ranking.
More
- One-pick Draft
- After the opponent loses life, choose their discarded nonland card instead of letting them choose.
Draft data
+6.3 pp vs 54.6% average · 60,421 instances
Premier Draft · Jul 30–Sep 3, 2024 · average from 931,230 games
#21 of 258 nonland cards by win rate · last seen around pick 2.9 on average (62,014 packs).
3 of 41 black cards · 1 of 16 black uncommon cards.
14,646 matches
Pick and maindeck observations: Jul 30–Sep 3, 2024. Played/benched cells use matches when available; the drawn cell uses game instances.
○ Opening hand 61.4% · 25,332 instances
● Drawn later 60.6% · 35,089 instances
In hand 61.0% · 60,421 instances
Unseen in deck 54.6% · 84,756 instances
+6.4 percentage points when drawn
Compared with black cards
Ranks require 100 observations for that metric; comparisons are descriptive, not a pick order. Pick ranks put earlier picks first.
Best decks for it
no-splash decks only · card-level in-hand rates · 100 minimum
Batfolk WB61.9%9,574 instancesLizardfolk BR61.7%12,124 instancesRatfolk UB61.6%6,310 instancesSquirrelfolk BG61.5%10,378 instancesEach tick is this card’s all-decks rate (61.0% · 60,421 instances). A high card rate does not prove that splashing it will improve your deck.
Best with
Adjusted associations, ranked by confidence.
Shoreline Looter+4.6 pp9,888 games with both in the deck · 2,801 both drawnHow to read this
Observational, not a causal bonus. Both cards must be in the deck. Drawn means opening hand or normally drawn; each card counts once per game. Game-level approximate intervals do not account for repeated games by the same drafter.
At least 100 games in each of four drawn/not-drawn groups; adjusted for game length and screened by the lower confidence bound. Do not add these points to a card’s win rate.
Where it sits in the set
Above 92% of 258 nonland cards with 100+ instances, in win-rate order.
17Lands public datasets ↗ · CC BY 4.0 ↗ · Jul 30–Sep 3, 2024
Pick a printing for its prices and pull odds.
| Finish | Found in | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Nonfoil | Play Booster · Value Booster | $0.20 |
| Foil | Collector Booster · collector-sample · Play Booster · Value Booster | $0.27 |
Foil in a Collector Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 25 packs (4.00%) · 38.7% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →
Foil in a collector-sample · Modeled · About 1 in 100 packs (1.00%) · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →
Foil in a Play Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 313 packs (0.32%) · 10.9% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →
Nonfoil in a Play Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 28 packs (3.63%) · 73.5% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →
Foil in a value · Modeled · About 1 in 1,039 packs (0.10%) · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →
Nonfoil in a value · Modeled · About 1 in 46 packs (2.17%) · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →
How to pull it
Official rates for the whole category, not this card.
| Booster | Slot | Per pack | Category |
|---|---|---|---|
| Play Booster | Uncommons | 100% per position | Uncommons |
| Play Booster | Wildcard of any rarity | 100% | Wildcard of any rarity |
| Play Booster | Traditional foil of any rarity | 100% | Traditional foil of any rarity |
| Collector Booster | Traditional foil uncommons | 100% per position | Traditional foil uncommons |
Wizards · Collecting Bloomburrow ↗ · Oct 29, 2026
Details & sources
- Legal in
- Standard · Historic · Timeless · Pioneer · Modern · Legacy · Vintage · CommanderLimited eligibility depends on the event and its booster pool.
- Illustration
- Daniel Ljunggren, BLB 118 · Scryfall ↗
- More like this
- Lizardfolk cards → · Regular printing printings →
- Sources
- Wizards · Collecting Bloomburrow · Oct 29, 2026
Scryfall USD, snapshot Oct 25
Comprehensive Rules ↗