Is As Foretold good in Commander?

As Foretold in Commander — Combos, Decks & Price

As Foretold turns every upkeep into a free spell slot, letting you cast spells with mana value equal to or less than its time counter count without spending mana — and it accrues those counters automatically, every turn. The setup cost is real (turn three you're casting one-drops for free, which is underwhelming), but the payoff in counter-synergy shells like The Tenth Doctor // Rose Tyler is so lopsided that the card earns its slot on name alone.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01

The Tenth Doctor // Rose Tyler

85.4% of decks · synergy 0.82

As Foretold arrives in The Tenth Doctor // Rose Tyler decks already loaded for bear — the Doctor's triggered ability fires whenever you cast a historic spell for free, meaning every zero-cost activation off As Foretold is also a card draw trigger, turning one enchantment into a draw engine that scales by itself.

02

Obeka, Splitter of Seconds

82.5% of decks · synergy 0.78

Obeka, Splitter of Seconds cares about spells and abilities that reference 'your next turn,' and As Foretold's upkeep trigger means Obeka players can cache free casts across manipulated turn structures, making it a quietly degenerate mana advantage piece in that shell.

03

Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus

47.0% of decks · synergy 0.43

Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus doubles proliferate triggers, which means every proliferate activation puts two counters on As Foretold instead of one — the enchantment scales to cast expensive spells for free far faster than it would in any other deck.

04

Ezuri, Stalker of Spheres

30.1% of decks · synergy 0.29

Ezuri, Stalker of Spheres rewards you for proliferating, and As Foretold is a permanent that directly benefits from those same proliferate activations, making it a natural fit that simultaneously fuels Ezuri's draw engine and grows toward free larger spells.

05

Gandalf of the Secret Fire

29.3% of decks · synergy 0.26

Gandalf of the Secret Fire reduces the cost of instant and sorcery spells cast on other players' turns, and As Foretold's free activation works on any turn — stacking both effects means Gandalf players can deploy spells at instant speed for zero mana during opponents' turns with regularity.

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

As Foretold is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker. Commander is its natural home — the long game gives the counter count time to reach relevant mana values, and the proliferate and counter-doubling synergies available in the format make it dramatically stronger than its raw text implies. In Modern, it has seen fringe play in suspend-centric decks that use it to cast Ancestral Vision and Restore Balance for free on turn three, which is a legitimate axis but a narrow one. Legacy and Vintage don't want a three-mana enchantment that does nothing immediately when faster mana and interaction exist. In Oathbreaker, the compressed game speed cuts against it the same way.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$1.38 cheap tier

At $1.38, As Foretold is firmly in impulse-buy territory for any Commander deck running blue with proliferate or counter synergies. The price is low relative to the ceiling of what the card does in the right shell, and nothing currently points toward it spiking out of budget range.