Smellerbee, Rebel Fighter
TLE · rare · Released 2025-11-21
Power
Tier shown as baseline → best-case (in its ideal shell).
Derived from the 7 atoms below.
on rate
minor value alone
wants support
scales up
multiple modes
broadly useful
easily answered
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Rationale
Smellerbee is a 4cmc red aggro commander/creature that grants haste to the whole team and provides attack-triggered hand refuel: discard hand, draw equal to attacking creatures. Signature in wide-board aggro and tokens-go-wide shells where attacking with many creatures turns the wheel into a large draw. The discard-draw is a meaningful payoff when 5+ creatures attack but is symmetrically risky if the hand is large — best in decks that empty their hand quickly anyway.
Learnings (3)
The draw trigger scales with total attacking creatures, not just those with haste — even non-haste creatures that were already on board count, making the refuel stronger in wide token decks than it first appears.
tagging · claude-sonnet-4-6
Discarding your hand before drawing is a cost, not a may-cost on the discard — you must empty your hand fully before drawing, which can be a liability if you hold high-value cards like removal.
tagging · claude-sonnet-4-6
Smellerbee's haste grant applying to 'other creatures' means it doesn't give itself haste — it needs to survive a turn before acting as the haste-anthem, making it somewhat fragile as a turn-4 play into open removal.
tagging · claude-sonnet-4-6
Popularity
- EDHREC rank: #9,428