Mind Spiral
Sorcery
Gift a tapped Fish (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, they create a tapped 1/1 blue Fish creature token before its other effects.)
Target player draws three cards. If the gift was promised, tap target creature an opponent controls and put a stun counter on it. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.)
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Bloomburrow
- Price
- $0.06
- EDHREC rank
- #13118
Mind Spiral mills a target opponent for X cards, where X is whatever mana you sink into it — straightforward, scalable, and entirely dependent on your ability to cast it big enough to matter. In Commander, that ceiling is real, but so is the competition from spells that do more for the same mana.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Mind Spiral is legal across every major format, but it only earns a slot in Commander, where mill strategies can actually close games against 100-card libraries and X-spells scale with the format's naturally high mana counts. In 1v1 formats like Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer, it's outclassed by dedicated mill pieces that hit harder for less mana, and the 60-card library makes the math much tighter against it. Pauper has better common-slot mill options. Stick to Commander if you're running Mind Spiral at all, and only there in a deck built to generate the mana needed to make the X relevant.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.06 bulk tier
At $0.06, Mind Spiral is deep bulk — you'll find copies in any common box without a second thought. The price reflects the card's narrow role; it won't appreciate, but it costs nothing to try.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.