Parker Luck
Enchantment
At the beginning of your end step, two target players each reveal the top card of their library. They each lose life equal to the mana value of the card revealed by the other player. Then they each put the card they revealed into their hand.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Marvel's Spider-Man
- Price
- $0.36
- EDHREC rank
- #9579
Parker Luck puts a free card into your hand the moment it resolves — the drawback is that your opponent draws one too, and at one blue mana that symmetry is the whole conversation. In Mister Negative builds it stops being symmetrical fast, turning a minor concession into pure advantage.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Mister Negative
Mister Negative flips the polarity on Parker Luck's drawback — what hands your opponent a card instead drains their library, making this a one-mana asymmetric effect that slots cleanly into the mill-and-drain engine.
Cormela, Glamour Thief
Cormela, Glamour Thief wants cheap instants and sorceries that do something relevant and then sit in the graveyard ready to be recurred; Parker Luck fills that role at the lowest possible entry cost while keeping your hand stocked for the combo turns.
Eddie Brock
Eddie Brock decks run enough incidental card draw payoffs that Parker Luck's cantrip effect justifies its slot even when the opponent's copy is genuinely free — the raw speed of one mana makes it one of the easier includes.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Parker Luck is legal everywhere except Pauper, but Commander is where it earns a slot. In 60-card formats the symmetry is a real liability — giving a Legacy or Modern opponent a free card is often a game-losing concession, and there are strictly better one-mana cantrips available in those formats. In Commander the math softens slightly because three opponents drawing one card is three cards against you, which is usually worse than in 1v1, but Mister Negative decks sidestep that calculus entirely and make Parker Luck a one-sided effect. Outside of that specific commander synergy, treat it as a filler cantrip that only belongs in shells with explicit draw-matters payoffs.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.36 bulk tier
At $0.36, Parker Luck is deep bulk — pick it up without thinking twice if the deck calls for it. Bulk rares with narrow application tend to stay at this floor, so there's no urgency and no meaningful price risk either direction.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Mister Negative
- Cormela, Glamour Thief
- Eddie Brock
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.