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Cerulean Wisps

Instant

Target creature becomes blue until end of turn. Untap that creature.
Draw a card.

CMC
1
Mana cost
{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
common
Set
Shadowmoor
Price
$0.91
EDHREC rank
#4478
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Cerulean Wisps card art
Cerulean Wisps does nothing to the board — it redraws itself, changes a creature's color, and costs one blue mana, which is the entire sales pitch. In decks that care about spell count, like those built around Storm-Kiln Artist or Stella Lee, Wild Card, that self-replacing cantrip is a free trigger, and free triggers are the currency those engines run on.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Stella Lee, Wild Card

Stella Lee, Wild Card

64.0% of decks · synergy 0.60

Stella Lee, Wild Card fires her copy trigger on every instant and sorcery cast, so Cerulean Wisps draws a card and generates a copy for a single blue mana — a near-zero-cost way to chain spells and keep the turn alive.

02
Orvar, the All-Form

Orvar, the All-Form

53.0% of decks · synergy 0.50

Cerulean Wisps targets a creature you control, which is exactly the trigger Orvar, the All-Form needs to create a token copy of that permanent — one mana to clone your best creature and replace the spell in hand.

04
Alaundo the Seer

Alaundo the Seer

24.5% of decks · synergy 0.24

Alaundo the Seer removes omen counters equal to a spell's mana value when you draw, and Cerulean Wisps at one mana is one of the cheapest ways to trigger that draw and accelerate whatever is waiting on top of the library.

05
Ivy, Gleeful Spellthief

Ivy, Gleeful Spellthief

17.4% of decks · synergy 0.17

Ivy, Gleeful Spellthief copies any single-target spell aimed at an opponent's creature, so Cerulean Wisps targeting an opponent's creature hands Ivy a free copy that retargets your own — netting a draw and a color-change trigger for one mana.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Cerulean Wisps sees essentially zero competitive play in Legacy, Modern, or Vintage — a one-mana cantrip that draws one is below rate in formats where Brainstorm and Ponder exist. Pauper is the only non-Commander 60-card format where it has occasionally appeared in storm shells that need cheap blue spells to hit count thresholds. Commander is where Cerulean Wisps actually earns its slot: the combination of spell-trigger commanders and storm-adjacent engines creates a niche where a self-replacing one-mana instant is meaningfully better than a spell that costs one more.

Key Combos

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Price Context

Current price

$0.91 bulk tier

At $0.91, Cerulean Wisps sits at the high end of bulk — it's not a penny rare, but it's priced purely on niche Commander demand rather than competitive play. It holds that price floor comfortably because the decks that want it really want it, and there is no functional reprint that competes for the same slot.

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