Consult the Star Charts
Instant
Kicker 
(You may pay an additional as you cast this spell.)
Look at the top X cards of your library, where X is the number of lands you control. Put one of those cards into your hand. If this spell was kicked, put two of those cards into your hand instead. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Edge of Eternities Promos
- Price
- $4.07
- EDHREC rank
- #4065
Consult the Star Charts puts a land into play tapped and scries 2 — meaningful board impact for a single blue mana when you're triggering it repeatedly. Katara, Waterbending Master decks that recast the same spells multiple times per turn turn this into a steady drip of velocity and mana development that most ramp spells at this price can't match.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Katara, Waterbending Master
Katara, Waterbending Master recasts spells from the graveyard, so Consult the Star Charts stops being a one-time land drop and becomes a repeatable scry-2 engine that also ramps — exactly the kind of cheap, recursive fuel Katara wants to chain through a turn.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Consult the Star Charts earns its slot in any blue deck that can recast or copy it — the scry 2 plus a land in play for one mana is ahead of rate when you're triggering it more than once. In constructed formats like Standard, Pioneer, and Modern, it competes with a much denser field of one-mana cantrips, and a tapped land rarely makes the cut when speed is everything. Legacy and Vintage have even less patience for enters-tapped lands, so Consult the Star Charts is essentially a Commander card that happens to be legal elsewhere.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$4.07 cheap tier
At $4.07, Consult the Star Charts sits at the high end of the cheap tier, reflecting demand from Katara, Waterbending Master pilots rather than broad cross-format play. It's a Commander-specific card with a narrow home, so the price is stable rather than growing — buy it if you need it, don't expect it to climb.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Katara, Waterbending Master
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.