Primal Plasma
Creature — Elemental Shapeshifter
As this creature enters, it becomes your choice of a 3/3 creature, a 2/2 creature with flying, or a 1/6 creature with defender.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Time Spiral Remastered
- Price
- $0.09
- EDHREC rank
- #26534
Primal Plasma is a five-mana 3/3 that lets you choose its form — flying 3/3, islandwalk 4/4, or unblockable 2/5 — and that choice locks in permanently on entry, which means you're paying five for a vanilla-adjacent creature whose best mode is just unblockable. It's too slow and too underpowered for any format where better evasion exists at lower cost.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Primal Plasma is legal across Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legal doesn't mean playable. In Pauper, the format most likely to give it a shot, five mana for a 2/5 unblockable is outcompeted by cheaper, faster threats. In Commander, where the bar for a five-mana creature is immediate board impact or combo relevance, Primal Plasma offers neither — it just sits in play as a beater with no ETB, no synergy hook, and no text that scales with the late game. Legacy and Vintage don't even enter the conversation.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.09 bulk tier
At $0.09, Primal Plasma is deep bulk — the kind of card that ends up in a box, not a deck. That price reflects demand accurately, and there's no competitive or Commander pressure that would push it higher.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.