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Dragon's Eye Savants

Creature — Human Wizard

Morph—Reveal a blue card in your hand. (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)
When this creature is turned face up, look at target opponent's hand.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
common
Set
Masters 25
Price
$0.17
EDHREC rank
#17376
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Dragon's Eye Savants card art
Dragon's Eye Savants enters and lets you look at an opponent's hand — clean information, zero resource cost beyond the body itself. Missy makes that trigger repeatable by blinking the Savants, turning a one-shot peek into a standing window into every opponent's grip.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Missy

Missy

24.8% of decks · synergy 0.25

Missy's blink engine turns Dragon's Eye Savants from a one-time look into a recurrent hand-reading tool — every loop, you know exactly what interaction is sitting across the table and can sequence your threats accordingly.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper legal
oathbreaker legal

Dragon's Eye Savants is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but outside of Commander it sees essentially no play — a 0/4 that reads one hand once is too low-impact to compete in any format where games end before the information matters. In Commander, the card's entire case rests on the Missy pairing: blink it repeatedly and the Savants become a soft form of hand control, letting you identify and play around counters, removal, or win conditions before committing. Without a blink engine, it's a one-shot effect on a French vanilla body, and that's not enough.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.17 bulk tier

At $0.17, Dragon's Eye Savants is firmly bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not scarcity. Demand is narrow enough that the price is unlikely to move unless Missy drives a sustained spike in blink-themed builds.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.