Quicksilver Fisher
Creature — Phyrexian Drake
Flying
When this creature enters, draw a card, then discard a card.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Phyrexia: All Will Be One
- Price
- $0.03
- EDHREC rank
- #20727
Quicksilver Fisher enters the battlefield and immediately replaces itself — a 2/2 body that draws a card on arrival is a clean two-for-one at four mana. The cost is the mana value: four is a crowded slot, and without an enter-the-battlefield loop or flicker engine amplifying it, that's the ceiling.
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 |
Quicksilver Fisher is a Commander card — full stop. The format's slower pace, 40 life totals, and appetite for incremental card advantage are exactly where a four-mana 2/2 that draws a card earns its slot, especially in flicker and blink strategies. In Pauper it's legal and the common restriction matters, but the format's faster tempo makes a four-mana do-nothing-immediately creature a liability outside dedicated ETB shells. Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer have no use for it — the power ceiling is too low and the competition at four mana too steep.
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Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.03 bulk tier
At $0.03, Quicksilver Fisher is pure bulk — the kind of card you pull from a common box without a second thought. That price is stable because demand is narrow: it's a role-player in flicker decks, not a staple anyone is hunting down.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.