Prescient Chimera
Creature — Chimera
Flying
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Jumpstart
- Price
- $0.17
- EDHREC rank
- #21851
Prescient Chimera gives you a 3/4 flyer that replaces itself with a scry 2 every time you cast an instant or sorcery — repeatable library manipulation stapled to a relevant body. Five mana is real, but in any deck that's casting spells every turn, the value compounds fast enough to justify the slot.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Prescient Chimera is a pauper-legal common, and that's where it sees the most serious play — blue-heavy spell-dense decks in Pauper can trigger it multiple times per turn cycle, turning it into a soft-lock on card quality. In Commander, it fits comfortably in Izzet or Jeskai spellslinger builds where instants and sorceries flow freely, though five mana puts it in competition with more explosive payoffs at that spot. Legacy, Vintage, and Modern are non-starters — the rate is simply too slow for those formats regardless of legality. Pioneer and Oathbreaker follow the same logic as Commander: playable in the right shell, ignored everywhere else.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.17 bulk tier
At $0.17, Prescient Chimera is bulk in every sense — you're paying for cardboard and shipping, not the card. Bulk commons don't appreciate, but they also don't need to; if it fits your Pauper or Commander list, the acquisition cost is effectively zero.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.