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Prismari Pianist

Creature — Djinn Bard

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 1/1 blue and red Elemental creature token. If that spell's mana value is 5 or greater, create three of those tokens instead.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{1}{R}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
rare
Set
Secrets of Strixhaven Commander
Price
$0.54
EDHREC rank
#13934
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Prismari Pianist card art
Prismari Pianist lets you copy an instant or sorcery by sacrificing it to a Blood Funnel-style cost reduction, which means spell-copy decks get a repeatable engine stapled to a creature body. The cost is real — you lose the original spell — but in a deck built around Rootha, Mastering the Moment, that trade is exactly what you want.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Rootha, Mastering the Moment

Rootha, Mastering the Moment

68.0% of decks · synergy 0.62

Prismari Pianist is in 68% of Rootha, Mastering the Moment decks because the two cards form the core of the same engine: Rootha copies spells by bouncing herself, and the Pianist turns that loop into a mana-efficient chain that can go off without relying on the command zone alone.

02
Magnus the Red

Magnus the Red

37.4% of decks · synergy 0.31

Magnus the Red reduces the cost of spells cast by his creature tokens, and Prismari Pianist slots in as a way to generate spell-copy value while contributing to the token and storm count Magnus wants to build.

03

Extus, Oriq Overlord

20.2% of decks · synergy 0.20

The Magecraft trigger on Extus, Oriq Overlord's back face rewards casting and copying spells, and Prismari Pianist adds a copy trigger that feeds that engine while also being a creature Extus can recur from the graveyard.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Prismari Pianist is a Commander card through and through — the spell-copy payoff only matters when you have the redundancy and build-around structure that 100-card singleton enables. In Legacy and Vintage, where it's technically legal, it's too slow and too dependent on other pieces to see play. Oathbreaker offers a tighter loop since your signature spell is always available, which makes the Pianist's copy ability more consistent. Outside of those 60-card eternal formats, the card simply isn't legal, and it wouldn't compete there anyway.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.54 bulk tier

At $0.54, Prismari Pianist is firmly bulk, which matches its narrow role as a build-around in a specific slice of spell-copy Commander decks. The price is unlikely to move unless Rootha, Mastering the Moment strategies spike in popularity, so pick it up cheaply and don't expect it to appreciate.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.