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Beastcaller Savant

Creature — Elf Shaman Ally

Haste
{T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
rare
Set
Battle for Zendikar
Price
$0.61
EDHREC rank
#4821
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Beastcaller Savant card art
Beastcaller Savant is a two-mana mana dork that taps for any color — but only for creature spells, which is a real restriction that keeps it out of generic ramp slots. In creature-dense engines, especially anything looping with Cloudstone Curio or cheating costs with Indominus Rex, Alpha, that restriction stops mattering entirely.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Indominus Rex, Alpha

Indominus Rex, Alpha

24.8% of decks · synergy 0.24

Indominus Rex, Alpha casts creatures almost exclusively, so Beastcaller Savant's color restriction is functionally irrelevant — it's just a two-mana any-color rock that also checks the Dinosaur creature type for Enrage synergies.

02
Ognis, the Dragon's Lash

Ognis, the Dragon's Lash

22.0% of decks · synergy 0.21

Beastcaller Savant has haste, which is the entire reason Ognis, the Dragon's Lash runs it — it enters, swings immediately, and produces a Treasure on combat, converting the mana dork into an accelerant the same turn it lands.

03
Animar, Soul of Elements

Animar, Soul of Elements

20.3% of decks · synergy 0.19

Animar, Soul of Elements builds a board of creatures and nothing else, so Beastcaller Savant's restriction never bites — it contributes colored mana into a shell that often needs green or blue to chain spells through Animar's cost reduction.

04
Katara, the Fearless

Katara, the Fearless

19.6% of decks · synergy 0.19

Katara, the Fearless cares about creatures with different mana costs, and Beastcaller Savant slots in as a haste-bearing mana producer that can fund the varied-cost creatures Katara wants to keep flowing.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Beastcaller Savant earns its keep — creature-heavy decks are everywhere, and the any-color output at two mana is genuinely useful in three- and four-color builds where color fixing matters. In Modern and Pioneer it competes against a deeper pool of two-mana dorks with no restrictions, so it rarely makes the cut outside of very specific creature-combo strategies. Legacy and Vintage have even higher bars; Beastcaller Savant doesn't see meaningful play there. Oathbreaker mirrors Commander's dynamic closely enough that the same creature-dense decks that want it in 100-card will want it in 60-card.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.61 bulk tier

At $0.61, Beastcaller Savant is bulk — easy to pick up as a throw-in or in a common/uncommon lot. The price is stable given its niche role; it's not climbing, but a card this cheap that sees play in a quarter of Indominus Rex, Alpha decks doesn't need to.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.