Brilliant Plan
Sorcery
Draw three cards.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Treasure Chest
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #21113
Brilliant Plan draws you three cards for four mana at sorcery speed — functional, but unexciting. It gets the job done in decks that are starved for budget draw options, and nowhere else.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Brilliant Plan competes against a deep bench of cheaper, instant-speed, or repeatable draw spells, and it mostly loses that fight. It sees play as a budget filler when better options are out of reach — think Divination's bigger sibling with the same fundamental problem. Pauper is where Brilliant Plan is most at home, since the common card pool narrows the competition and raw card advantage matters more at that slot. Legacy and Vintage are legal but irrelevant — no competitive list touches a four-mana sorcery for three cards in those formats.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data isn't available for Brilliant Plan right now, but as a common with no competitive demand, it should be a bulk pickup at any local game store. There's no urgency here — copies aren't going anywhere.
Explore
Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.