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Puresight Merrow

Creature — Merfolk Wizard

{W/U}, {Q}: Look at the top card of your library. You may exile that card. ({Q} is the untap symbol.)

CMC
2
Mana cost
{W/U}{W/U}
Color identity
UW
Rarity
uncommon
Set
The List
Price
$0.14
EDHREC rank
#21162
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Puresight Merrow card art
Puresight Merrow lets you repeatedly exile cards off the top of your library as long as you can keep untapping it, which in the right shell becomes an engine that scrubs your deck of every land and irrelevant spell until you hit your win condition. The cost is the setup: you need an untap outlet, and a two-mana 1/1 does nothing without one — Tazri, Stalwart Survivor decks and dedicated combo shells pay that price willingly; everyone else doesn't.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Puresight Merrow is a Commander card through and through — the formats where it's legal outside Commander (Legacy, Modern, Vintage) have never had a competitive shell for it, and none exist today. In Commander, it earns its slot specifically in combo decks that generate repeated untap triggers, where it functions as a repeatable deck-filter that can effectively remove every land from your library mid-combo. Outside those dedicated shells it's a 1/1 for two that does nothing without a partner, which is unplayable in any 60-card context regardless of legality.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.14 bulk tier

At $0.14, Puresight Merrow is deep bulk — you're paying essentially nothing for a card with a narrow but real combo application. The price is stable there; it has one home and casual demand only, so don't expect movement in either direction.

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