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Harmonic Prodigy

Creature — Human Wizard

Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
If a triggered ability of a Shaman or another Wizard you control triggers, that ability triggers an additional time.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
rare
Set
Jumpstart: Historic Horizons
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#688
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Harmonic Prodigy card art
Harmonic Prodigy doubles every triggered ability your Wizards and Shamans produce, which is already backbreaking on its own — the real danger is pairing it with Twinflame or Delina, Wild Mage, where a single trigger suddenly becomes four, eight, or more. Two mana for that multiplier is not a fair rate.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Delina, Wild Mage

Delina, Wild Mage

82.6% of decks · synergy 0.79

Harmonic Prodigy is in over 82% of Delina, Wild Mage decks for an obvious reason: Delina's attack trigger already threatens to go infinite, and doubling every copy-creation trigger means each successful roll snowballs twice as fast.

02
Rionya, Fire Dancer

Rionya, Fire Dancer

77.4% of decks · synergy 0.74

Rionya, Fire Dancer's end-of-combat trigger scales directly with the number of spells cast that turn, and Harmonic Prodigy doubles it — meaning a modest five-spell turn suddenly produces ten temporary copies instead of five.

03

Kuja, Genome Sorcerer

78.3% of decks · synergy 0.71

Kuja, Genome Sorcerer cares about creatures entering play and triggering cascading effects, making Harmonic Prodigy a force multiplier that turns every relevant trigger into two without any additional investment.

04
Krark, the ThumblessSakashima of a Thousand Faces

Krark, the Thumbless // Sakashima of a Thousand Faces

83.6% of decks · synergy 0.66

Krark, the Thumbless already threatens to recur spells with each coin flip trigger, and Harmonic Prodigy doubles those Wizard triggers so every cast is rolling twice as many dice toward a runaway storm count.

05
Riku of Many Paths

Riku of Many Paths

66.7% of decks · synergy 0.64

Riku of Many Paths builds around stacking triggers from multiple sources, and Harmonic Prodigy plugs directly into that by doubling the Wizard and Shaman triggers that Riku's engine depends on to generate value each turn cycle.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where Harmonic Prodigy actually lives — the Wizard and Shaman trigger-doubling is too slow and too build-around for the efficient, linear demands of Legacy or Vintage, where it sees virtually no play despite being legal. In Modern it's theoretically legal but lacks the critical mass of powerful Wizard or Shaman trigger synergies to compete with faster strategies. Harmonic Prodigy is a Commander card through and through: the 100-card singleton format gives you the density of synergy pieces needed to make doubling triggers matter, and the longer game gives you time to resolve a two-mana creature and let it pay off.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

27 decks
Orvar, the All-FormClockspinningHarmonic Prodigy

Orvar, the All-FormClockspinningHarmonic Prodigy

Infinite copies of permanents you control; Infinite creature tokens; Infinite ETB; Infinite landfall triggers; Infinitely large creatures you control until end of turn; Infinite magecraft triggers; Infinite mana permanents you control can produce; Infinite storm count

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Price Context

Current price

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