Stinging Lionfish
Stinging Lionfish: Enchantment Creature - Fish, Foundations Jumpstart. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {1}{U}
- Mana value
- 2
- Type
- Enchantment Creature - Fish
- Colour identity
- Blue (U)
- Power / toughness
- 2/1
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Set
- Foundations Jumpstart (J25)
- Released
- 2024-11-15
- Collector number
- 367
- Artist
- Christopher Burdett
- Commander rank
- 14,137 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
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About Stinging Lionfish
Stinging Lionfish is a Magic: The Gathering card, an uncommon blue enchantment creature from Foundations Jumpstart (J25), a draft-focused set released in November 2024. It is collector number 367 in that set, with art by Christopher Burdett. It costs {1}{U} (one generic and one blue mana) to cast, for a mana value of 2. It is a 2/1 creature. Its colour identity is blue. It is legal in Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Historic, Timeless, Gladiator and Penny Dreadful. It has been printed in 4 sets, from Theros Beyond Death (2020) to Foundations Jumpstart (2024). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.22 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-01).
Card text
Whenever you cast your first spell during each opponent's turn, you may tap or untap target nonland permanent.
Starfish are its favorite prey.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.22 (as of 2026-11-01).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Stinging Lionfish by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Pioneer | Legal |
|---|---|
| Modern | Legal |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Brawl | Legal |
| Historic | Legal |
| Timeless | Legal |
| Gladiator | Legal |
| Penny Dreadful | Legal |
Other printings of Stinging Lionfish
Stinging Lionfish has been printed in 4 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Jumpstart 2022 (J22) #352 | Uncommon | 2022 |
| Alchemy Horizons: Baldur's Gate (HBG) #915 | Uncommon | 2022 |
| Theros Beyond Death (THB) #69 | Uncommon | 2020 |
Official rulings
Four official rulings apply to Stinging Lionfish, newest first.
- If you have more than one opponent, this ability can trigger once during each of those opponents' turns.
- In a Two-Headed Giant game, this ability triggers no more than once during each opposing team's turn.
- This ability triggers only on your very first spell during an opponent's turn, not the first spell after the card is on the battlefield. If you cast a spell before it's on the battlefield (including if you cast this card somehow during an opponent's turn), the ability won't trigger.
- An ability that triggers when you cast a spell resolves before the spell that caused it to trigger. It resolves even if that spell is countered.
Similar cards
Other enchantment creature cards with a blue colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.
In these card lists
These card lists include Stinging Lionfish.