Flowstone Channeler
Creature — Human Spellshaper
, 
, Discard a card: Target creature gets +1/-1 and gains haste until end of turn.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Time Spiral
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #30623
Flowstone Channeler turns any creature into a repeatable pump outlet at the cost of a tap and a red mana, which is fine — except a 2/1 body for three mana is a bad rate for what is ultimately a support piece. Run it only if your deck specifically needs another activation outlet and has exhausted better options.
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, Flowstone Channeler is a fringe role-player in red aggro or token builds that want cheap activation outlets — it is never a first pick, but it is legal and occasionally functional. In Pauper, where the card pool is constrained, a repeatable pump effect at common has more relative standing, and red-based aggro lists at that budget level may give it a genuine look. Legacy and Vintage have no interest here — the effect is too slow and the body too small to compete. Flowstone Channeler is effectively a Commander and Pauper card, and even there it sits well outside the core.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Flowstone Channeler is deep bulk — the kind of card that ends up in a trade binder filler slot. There is no demand driver that would move this price, so treat it as a free inclusion if you have a copy, not a card worth tracking down.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.