Psemilla, Meletian Poet
Legendary Creature — Human Bard
Whenever you cast your first enchantment spell each turn, create a 2/2 white Nymph enchantment creature token.
At the beginning of each combat, if you control five or more enchantments, Psemilla gets +4/+4 and gains lifelink until end of turn. (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Foundations Jumpstart
- Price
- $0.31
- EDHREC rank
- #13339
Psemilla, Meletian Poet turns every instant and sorcery you cast into a 1/1 Pegasus token with flying — relevant board presence stapled to a spell-slinging gameplan. The cost is that 44% of Victor, Valgavoth's Seneschal decks already run her, which tells you exactly how high the ceiling is when the tokens feed a sacrifice or aristocrats engine.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Victor, Valgavoth's Seneschal
Victor, Valgavoth's Seneschal drains life whenever a creature enters under your control, so every instant or sorcery Psemilla, Meletian Poet converts into a Pegasus token becomes a free drain trigger — the two cards form a self-sustaining loop of spells, bodies, and life loss that defines the archetype.
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 |
Psemilla, Meletian Poet is a Commander card — the token generation scales with the spell density that 100-card decks naturally support, and the Pegasus tokens compound over a long game in ways that matter less in faster formats. Legacy and Vintage are legal but uninterested: a three-mana 2/2 that makes 1/1s at instant speed has no competitive footing where games end on turn one or two. Oathbreaker is where she could see fringe play as a signature-spell-friendly payoff if the spell density is there, but Commander is the only home worth building around.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.31 bulk tier
At $0.31, Psemilla, Meletian Poet is firmly bulk — easy to acquire as a four-of pickup or throw-in trade. Bulk rares with narrow Commander homes rarely climb unless a new commander pushes the archetype, so treat this as a cheap enabler to grab now and not a card to spec on.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.