Parallel Thoughts
Enchantment
When this enchantment enters, search your library for seven cards, exile them in a face-down pile, and shuffle that pile. Then shuffle your library.
If you would draw a card, you may instead put the top card of the pile you exiled into your hand.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Scourge
- Price
- $1.66
- EDHREC rank
- #14497
Parallel Thoughts lets you set aside a private seven-card library at enchantment speed, replacing your normal draws with exactly the cards you chose — effectively turning every future draw step into a tutor. The four-mana entry cost is real, but The Celestial Toymaker makes that irrelevant by treating the enchantment itself as a game piece.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
The Celestial Toymaker
The Celestial Toymaker's ability to force opponents to interact with your permanents as game constructs means Parallel Thoughts becomes a protected card-selection engine — once the stack is set, The Celestial Toymaker ensures those seven cards resolve into your hand on your terms.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Parallel Thoughts is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but in practice it lives almost exclusively in Commander, where the singleton constraint makes a private seven-card tutor pile dramatically stronger than in any 60-card context. In Legacy and Vintage, four mana for a delayed, conditional draw engine doesn't compete with the raw speed of those formats. Commander is where the math actually works: one enchantment can quietly guarantee your win condition, your interaction, and your protection all arrive on schedule without telegraphing anything to opponents until it's too late.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$1.66 cheap tier
At $1.66, Parallel Thoughts sits in the cheap tier — a low-stakes pickup for the effect it delivers. Given its narrow but devoted Commander audience and single printing, the price is stable rather than trending down.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.