Consider
Instant
Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
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- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Ravnica: Clue Edition
- Price
- $0.55
- EDHREC rank
- #383
Consider cantrips for one blue mana while putting a card in your graveyard — the loot effect is the point, not a downside. In any deck where the graveyard is a resource, Consider does more work than Opt for the same cost, and Octavia, Living Thesis runs it at an 85% rate because every instant cast counts toward the thesis trigger.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Octavia, Living Thesis
Octavia, Living Thesis counts each instant and sorcery cast from the graveyard toward its ability, and Consider both advances that count and mills a card that can become future fuel — 85% inclusion across nearly 3,800 decks reflects exactly that double-dip.
Mirko, Obsessive Theorist
Mirko, Obsessive Theorist wants the opponent's library in the graveyard and your own stocked with actionable cards, and Consider slots into that engine as a one-mana cantrip that simultaneously advances your own graveyard — over 9,200 Mirko decks run it at 81%.
Zethi, Arcane Blademaster
Zethi, Arcane Blademaster imprints instants onto its equipment and reuses them, making cheap instants disproportionately valuable, and Consider at one mana is exactly the kind of low-cost spell Zethi wants imprinted and repeatedly cast.
Geralf, the Fleshwright
Geralf, the Fleshwright triggers off noncreature spells cast by you and opponents, so Consider at instant speed on any player's turn becomes a free Zombie token trigger while keeping your hand stocked — 74% of Geralf lists include it.
Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy // Scion of Halaster
Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy // Scion of Halaster cares deeply about instants and sorceries hitting the graveyard, and Consider feeds that zone while replacing itself, making it one of the most efficient one-drops available to the deck at 70% inclusion.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Consider is a staple in every Constructed format where it's legal. In Commander it's the go-to one-mana cantrip for blue decks that treat the graveyard as a second hand — it replaces itself and stocks the yard in one motion, which Opt cannot claim. In Pauper it competes hard with Brainstorm and Preordain as a core filter piece in tempo and combo shells. Modern and Legacy run it in graveyard-synergy strategies and delve decks where the milled card directly reduces the cost of future spells. Pioneer lacks access to Opt's older printings, which elevates Consider to a first-choice cantrip in that format's blue control and combo lists.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.55 bulk tier
At $0.55, Consider is bulk — you're paying almost nothing for a card that earns its slot in dozens of archetypes. That price is stable; it's been widely reprinted and demand is broad but never spiking, so buy the copies you need now without any concern about availability.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Octavia, Living Thesis
- Mirko, Obsessive Theorist
- Zethi, Arcane Blademaster
- Geralf, the Fleshwright
- Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy // Scion of Halaster
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.