Mystic Familiar
Creature — Bird
Flying
Threshold — As long as there are seven or more cards in your graveyard, this creature gets +1/+1 and has protection from black.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Torment
- Price
- $0.10
- EDHREC rank
- #27101
Mystic Familiar is a two-mana 1/1 flier that scrys 1 when it enters — solid incremental value, but nothing that demands a slot. Outside of decks that specifically reward clerics, familiars, or constellation-style triggers, it doesn't pull enough weight to justify the inclusion.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Mystic Familiar is fringe at best — the bar for a two-mana do-little creature is high, and it only clears it in dedicated tribal or flicker shells that want every cheap cleric or familiar they can find. Pauper is where it has the most realistic home, since the card pool is shallow enough that a scry-1 flier on two mana can genuinely matter in tempo-oriented white or blue-white decks. Legacy and Vintage are legal but irrelevant — Mystic Familiar will never see a table in either format.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.10 bulk tier
At $0.10, Mystic Familiar is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not the card. There's no realistic demand spike coming, so grab a copy if a specific deck calls for it and don't think twice about the price.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.