Precognition
Enchantment
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may look at the top card of target opponent's library. If you do, you may put that card on the bottom of that player's library.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Tempest
- Price
- $0.37
- EDHREC rank
- #24230
Precognition lets you look at the top card of an opponent's library at the start of their draw step and exile it if you choose — sustained information and soft disruption on a single enchantment. Five mana is a steep ask for an effect that never ends the game on its own, so this belongs only in decks that can leverage the intelligence, not just ones that want to slow opponents down.
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 |
In Commander, Precognition occupies a narrow niche: control and stax builds that want to know what's coming before it arrives, particularly in 1v1 or high-information metas where denying a key draw matters. Legacy and Vintage have access to it on paper, but both formats move too fast for a five-mana do-nothing enchantment to matter — you'll never untap with it in a meaningful game. Oathbreaker is legal and the smaller starting life total compresses games enough that Precognition's slow grind rarely pays off. Realistically, Commander is the only format where the card sees any play at all, and even there it's a fringe inclusion.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.37 bulk tier
At $0.37, Precognition is deep bulk — you're not paying for power, you're paying for novelty. The price is unlikely to move unless a high-profile commander makes sustained top-deck manipulation relevant, which hasn't happened yet.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.