Professor of Zoomancy
Creature — Bear Druid
When this creature enters, create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life."
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Strixhaven: School of Mages
- Price
- $0.11
- EDHREC rank
- #15662
Professor of Zoomancy enters with a 1/1 pest token and pumps your whole board by one — that's two bodies and a team buff for four mana. It's a solid rate in any deck that wants bodies on the battlefield, and in Ayula, Queen Among Bears it's a legitimate engine piece since the pest counts as a bear trigger.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Ayula, Queen Among Bears
Ayula, Queen Among Bears triggers off every bear that enters, and Professor of Zoomancy delivers two — the Professor itself and the pest token — so a single cast can mean two +2/+2 pumps or two fight triggers before combat even starts.
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 |
Professor of Zoomancy is a Commander card first and foremost — the pest token and board-wide pump are designed for a multiplayer board state where you're accumulating creatures over a long game. In Pauper it's legal and the token generation has value in go-wide shells, but four mana is a steep ask at common when the format moves fast. Competitive constructed formats like Modern and Pioneer have no interest in a four-mana 2/3 whose pump doesn't end the game. Play Professor of Zoomancy where the game goes long enough for a tapped-out sorcery-speed four-drop to matter.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.11 bulk tier
At $0.11, Professor of Zoomancy is deep bulk — there's no reason to hesitate on picking up copies. Bulk commons and uncommons at this price floor don't move unless a format breaks them, and nothing in the current competitive landscape is doing that here.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.