Crystal Seer
Creature — Vedalken Wizard
When this creature enters, look at the top four cards of your library, then put them back in any order.
: Return this creature to its owner's hand.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Guildpact
- Price
- $0.03
- EDHREC rank
- #29967
Crystal Seer lets you look at the top five cards of your library and put them back in any order — that's meaningful deck manipulation stapled to a 2/2 body for five mana. The cost is the problem: five mana for a one-time scry effect is far behind what competitive formats expect from card selection.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Crystal Seer is a fringe inclusion — the scry-5 on entry is real, but five mana for a vanilla body with no repeatable payoff is hard to justify when Brainstorm and Ponder exist in the same color. Pauper is where Crystal Seer has the most argument for a slot, since the legal card pool narrows the competition for top-deck manipulation. Legacy and Vintage have access to so many efficient blue spells that Crystal Seer never makes the cut. Oathbreaker follows the same logic as Commander: the scry is fine, the rate isn't.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.03 bulk tier
At $0.03, Crystal Seer is deep bulk — you'll find it in a commons box before you'd bother ordering it. That price will hold in the sense that it can't really go lower, but there's no demand driver that would push it upward either.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.