Ichor Synthesizer
Creature — Phyrexian Wizard
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, put an oil counter on this creature.
As long as this creature has four or more oil counters on it, it gets +2/+0 and can't be blocked.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Phyrexia: All Will Be One
- Price
- $0.06
- EDHREC rank
- #21289
Ichor Synthesizer turns each noncreature spell you cast into a free proliferate trigger, which in counters-matter and toxic decks is a meaningful clock accelerator stapled to a 2/3 body for three mana. Bulk rate, real effect — run it in any blue-black shell that cares about poison or +1/+1 counters.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Ichor Synthesizer slots cleanly into Atraxa, Praetors' Voice lists and any dedicated infect or toxic build — every removal spell, cantrip, or piece of interaction you cast doubles as a proliferate activation, which compounds fast in a 40-life format. Pauper is where Ichor Synthesizer has the most competitive ceiling: the format has active poison and proliferate synergies, the body is relevant at common rarity, and the triggered ability generates incremental value in longer games. Modern and Pioneer have the legal access but lack the dedicated proliferate infrastructure to make it more than a fringe piece; it will occasionally appear in brewer lists but rarely in optimized shells. Legacy and Vintage have strictly more powerful options at every point on the curve, so it doesn't register there.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.06 bulk tier
At $0.06, Ichor Synthesizer is deep bulk — you're paying almost nothing for a repeatable proliferate engine. Bulk rares and uncommons with narrow but genuine synergy tend to sit at this price floor indefinitely, so there's no urgency to acquire it and no expectation of meaningful appreciation.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.