Piper's Melody
Sorcery
Shuffle any number of target creature cards from your graveyard into your library.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Odyssey
- Price
- $0.24
- EDHREC rank
- #23431
Piper's Melody reorders the top of your library by any number of creature cards from your hand — free card selection stapled to a zero-mana instant. The catch is that it doesn't draw anything new, so it only earns its slot when you're built to exploit what's sitting on top.
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 |
Piper's Melody is Commander's card almost exclusively. In a 100-card singleton format, smoothing your topdeck matters — especially in creature-heavy decks that want a specific piece on top for a trigger, a cascade, or a Yuriko flip. Legacy and Vintage are both legal formats, but neither wants a zero-mana sorcery that doesn't advance the board or dig deeper in any conventional sense. Oathbreaker is the one other format where Piper's Melody could see occasional play, again only in creature-dense, topdeck-matters builds.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.24 bulk tier
At $0.24, Piper's Melody is deep bulk — easy to pick up as a throw-in without thinking twice about the cost. The price reflects narrow demand; it won't creep up unless a topdeck-matters commander breaks out and pulls it into wider circulation.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.