Cinder Seer
Creature — Human Wizard
, 
: Reveal any number of red cards in your hand. This creature deals X damage to any target, where X is the number of cards revealed this way.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Urza's Destiny
- Price
- $0.25
- EDHREC rank
- #29384
Cinder Seer taps to deal damage equal to the number of Instants and Sorceries in your graveyard — a number that scales hard in spell-heavy decks and hits any target. The cost is four mana to cast plus a tap activation, which means it needs a high-volume spell shell to justify the slot.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Cinder Seer is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but Legacy and Vintage have no interest in a four-mana tap creature for incremental damage when those formats end games before a graveyard accrues meaningful size. Commander is where Cinder Seer actually lives: spell-slinger commanders that churn through Instants and Sorceries can turn a single tap into a meaningful damage source or a finisher over repeated activations. Oathbreaker is the sleeper home — the faster pace and lower life totals mean a graveyard of fifteen spells ends games sooner.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.25 bulk tier
At $0.25, Cinder Seer is firmly bulk — a pickup you make without thinking if the shell fits. Bulk rares with narrow synergy requirements rarely climb unless a new commander pushes the archetype hard, so treat this as a stable low-floor card rather than a sleeper.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.