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Psionic Gift

Enchantment — Aura

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has "{T}: This creature deals 1 damage to any target."

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
common
Set
Odyssey
Price
$0.21
EDHREC rank
#18569
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Psionic Gift card art
Psionic Gift turns any creature into a repeatable pinpoint damage source — one blue mana to enchant, then tap to deal 1 damage to any target. The reason it sees play is Thornbite Staff: the two together form a two-card engine that can machine-gun down an entire board or dome players out of the game.

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 legal
oathbreaker legal

Psionic Gift is a Commander card at heart — the format's slower pace and multiplayer life totals give the tap-to-deal-1 effect room to matter, especially once a combo partner like Thornbite Staff is online. In Pauper it sees fringe play as a budget engine piece in controlling blue builds, where common-legal untap effects keep the activations flowing. Legacy and Vintage are both legal, but a one-mana aura that deals 1 damage at a time has no realistic path to a competitive slot when those formats reward raw speed and efficiency. Treat Psionic Gift as a Commander-and-Pauper card with nominal legality elsewhere.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.21 bulk tier

At $0.21, Psionic Gift is deep bulk — a throw-in pickup whenever you're placing an order. It's a combo enabler with a real win condition attached, so the floor is unlikely to drop further, but there's no financial reason to think about it beyond 'costs less than a sleeve.'

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