Is Pir's Whim good in Commander?

Pir's Whim in Commander — Combos, Decks & Price

Pir's Whim fetches any land from your library and puts it into play — not your hand, into play — while optionally dismantling an opponent's artifact or enchantment in exchange for a Forest of their choice. The political wrapping makes it easier to resolve at a table full of interaction, but the real pull is four mana for a land-into-play effect that doubles as targeted removal; Gluntch, the Bestower decks run it because handing out gifts is the whole game plan.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01

Gluntch, the Bestower

29.0% of decks · synergy 0.28

Gluntch, the Bestower is built around controlled generosity, and Pir's Whim fits perfectly — you get a land into play immediately while choosing which opponents get a Forest, keeping you in full control of who benefits.

02

Phelddagrif

15.2% of decks · synergy 0.15

Phelddagrif group-hug lists want to accelerate everyone's mana while surviving to the late game, and Pir's Whim threads that needle by fetching a land for you while handing out Forests as a goodwill gesture that buys political cover.

03

Círdan the Shipwright

12.6% of decks · synergy 0.12

Círdan the Shipwright decks often need to hit land drops consistently to keep the engine running, and Pir's Whim's land-into-play effect is a reliable accelerant that also handles problematic artifacts or enchantments when the table needs a nudge.

04

Pir, Imaginative Rascal // Toothy, Imaginary Friend

11.9% of decks · synergy 0.11

The namesake connection is obvious, but Pir, Imaginative Rascal // Toothy, Imaginary Friend runs Pir's Whim for the same reason any Simic value deck does — it's ramp and interaction on one card, and the counter-doubling half of the pair doesn't mind the extra land entering the battlefield ahead of schedule.

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

Pir's Whim is a Commander card, full stop — the four-mana investment only pays off in a multiplayer context where you can pit opponents against each other with the artifact or enchantment clause. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but has no competitive presence; the effect is too slow and too conditional for those formats. Oathbreaker is the one other 60-card-adjacent format where its political dimension occasionally shows up in group games, but the realistic home is 100-card Commander tables where handing an opponent a Forest in exchange for blowing up their Smothering Tithe is a reasonable deal.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$3.31 cheap tier

At $3.31, Pir's Whim sits in the cheap tier for what it does — a land-into-play effect plus conditional removal on one card is legitimately above-rate, and the price reflects steady demand from group-hug and Simic value lists rather than spike interest. It's not going lower while Commander keeps growing.