Seasoned Consultant
Creature — Human Detective
Whenever you attack with three or more creatures, this creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Murders at Karlov Manor
- Price
- $0.03
- EDHREC rank
- #26698
Seasoned Consultant enters and immediately mills your entire library — but your opponent chooses which cards hit the graveyard and which get exiled, which means the engine only fires if your deck is built to exploit both outcomes. Run it when you want the graveyard stocked and don't care that an opponent controls the sorting.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Seasoned Consultant is a graveyard-engine piece in dedicated self-mill decks — the opponent-controlled split is the ceiling on its power, so it belongs in lists that exploit both exiled cards and graveyard cards rather than relying on one side. In Legacy and Vintage, the same design tension limits it: decks that want the library in the graveyard can find more deterministic lines, and the opponent split is a deal-breaker in high-stakes games. Modern and Pioneer follow the same logic — Seasoned Consultant is legal but slower and less reliable than purpose-built mill or reanimator payoffs in those formats. Pauper is where it has the clearest niche, since the tools for both graveyard and exile synergies are more constrained and a one-card library dump has real novelty value in budget builds.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.03 bulk tier
At $0.03, Seasoned Consultant is pure bulk — you can acquire a playset for less than a pack. Bulk rare prices like this are stable by definition since there's almost no room to fall further, so it's a safe pickup whenever a graveyard deck wants the effect.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.