Isperia the Inscrutable
Legendary Creature — Sphinx
Flying
Whenever Isperia deals combat damage to a player, choose a card name. That player reveals their hand. If a card with the chosen name is revealed this way, search your library for a creature card with flying, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- UW
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- RNA Guild Kit
- Price
- $0.36
- EDHREC rank
- #19660
Isperia the Inscrutable turns successful attacks into a repeatable tutor for flying creatures — card advantage stapled to a 3/6 flying body that's genuinely hard to block profitably. The catch is that the trigger requires naming a card in an opponent's hand correctly, which means the effect is unreliable without discard synergies or information engines to back it up.
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 |
Isperia the Inscrutable is a Commander card through and through — the political information game, the slow accumulation of flying tutors, and the six-mana cost all point to a 40-life multiplayer table. In Legacy and Vintage she's technically legal but competes with format staples at a fraction of the mana cost and sees essentially zero play. Oathbreaker is the one fringe case where her tutor trigger could generate real value, but six mana is still steep for that format's pace. Commander is the only context where she's worth sleeving up.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.36 bulk tier
At $0.36, Isperia the Inscrutable is firmly bulk — the kind of card you pull from a collection box rather than buy. That price is stable rather than a buying opportunity; demand is narrow enough that it's unlikely to spike absent a reprint or new synergy card pushing Azorius flying tribal into the spotlight.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.