Preferred Selection
Enchantment
At the beginning of your upkeep, look at the top two cards of your library. You may sacrifice this enchantment and pay 
. If you do, put one of those cards into your hand. If you don't, put one of those cards on the bottom of your library.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Mirage
- Price
- $0.56
- EDHREC rank
- #28342
Preferred Selection lets you look at the top card of your library at any time and replace it with a card from your hand — persistent top-deck manipulation stapled to a free filter engine, all for two mana. It's a niche tool that rewards decks that care about what's sitting on top, and close to unplayable in shells that don't.
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 |
Preferred Selection lives almost entirely in Commander, where the slower clock gives you enough turns to grind value out of a repeatable top-deck swap. Legacy and Vintage have it on the legal list, but neither format has any reason to run it — the competition for two-mana enchantment slots is ruthless and the effect doesn't threaten anything. Commander is where Preferred Selection earns its slot, specifically in decks that stack the top of the library through scry or similar effects and want to cash in a dead card for the one they set up.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.56 bulk tier
At $0.56, Preferred Selection sits in bulk territory — easy to pick up, easy to throw in a list on a whim. It's unlikely to climb without a high-profile commander printing that makes top-deck manipulation suddenly competitive, so don't expect the price to move.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.