Dowsing Shaman
Creature — Centaur Shaman
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: Return target enchantment card from your graveyard to your hand.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Planechase Anthology
- Price
- $0.20
- EDHREC rank
- #21063
Dowsing Shaman puts a repeatable enchantment-recursion engine on board for five mana — tap it, pay two, return any enchantment from your graveyard to your hand, every turn. The cost is real: five mana for a 3/3 with a tap ability is slow, but in dedicated enchantment decks that want to loop something like Second Chance, nothing else does this job at instant-board-presence.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Dowsing Shaman is a Commander card through and through — the repeatable value it offers only matters in a 40-life, multiplayer game where you have the turns to set up and abuse it. In Legacy and Vintage it's strictly unplayable; those formats have no patience for a five-mana do-nothing-until-next-turn creature. Modern is legal but equally hostile — the rate is embarrassing against format staples. Commander is where Dowsing Shaman finds its niche: enchantress builds and Constellation decks that want to recur key pieces over multiple turns will actually put it to work.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.20 bulk tier
At $0.20, Dowsing Shaman is bulk — you're paying almost nothing for a card with a narrow but real role in enchantment recursion decks. That price is unlikely to move unless a prominent Commander precon or enchantress build drives sudden demand, so grab copies without hesitation if the deck calls for it.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.