Aberrant Researcher // Perfected Form
Creature — Human Insect // Creature — Insect Horror
Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, mill a card. If an instant or sorcery card was milled this way, transform this creature. (To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Innistrad Remastered
- Price
- $0.08
- EDHREC rank
- #22747
Aberrant Researcher // Perfected Form gives you a self-filling delirium engine that flips into a 4/3 flying trampler with a triggered mill effect — real pressure for four mana. The cost is that it does nothing until you've fed four card types to your graveyard, which makes it dead weight in decks that can't set that up consistently.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Aberrant Researcher // Perfected Form slots cleanly into self-mill and delirium builds — commanders like Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver or Sidisi, Brood Tyrant naturally fill the graveyard with the card types needed to flip it, and the backside's end-step mill keeps the engine running. In Modern and Pioneer, it competes in dedicated delirium or Dimir mill shells, where the flip condition is achievable but the four-mana cost makes it a role-player rather than a staple. Legacy and Vintage have faster, more efficient graveyard payoffs, so Aberrant Researcher // Perfected Form rarely sees play there.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.08 bulk tier
At $0.08, Aberrant Researcher // Perfected Form is deep bulk — you're picking it out of a dollar bin, not tracking it on a buylist. Demand is narrow enough that the price is unlikely to move unless a new Commander precon or set pushes delirium into the spotlight.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.