Skyward Eye Prophets
Creature — Human Wizard
Vigilance
: Reveal the top card of your library. If it's a land card, put it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, put it into your hand.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GUW
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Conflux
- Price
- $0.12
- EDHREC rank
- #24021
Skyward Eye Prophets drops a repeatable scry-and-draw engine onto a 3/4 flying body — every untap step, you look at the top card and can put it into your hand. Six mana for a creature that immediately threatens card advantage is reasonable, but the effect only pays off if it survives long enough to untap, which at 3/4 it often won't.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Skyward Eye Prophets is a Commander card through and through — the repeatable card selection scales well in a 40-life format where games go long enough for a six-mana creature to actually untap. Outside Commander, six mana for a 3/4 that draws a card per turn cycle is simply too slow; Legacy and Vintage have no interest, and Modern has long since set the bar higher for that slot. In Commander, it fits most naturally in Azorius, Bant, or five-color control shells that can protect it and abuse untap effects to fire the trigger multiple times per round.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.12 bulk tier
At $0.12, Skyward Eye Prophets is deep bulk — buy a dozen for the price of a coffee. That price isn't going anywhere; casual demand is real but narrow, and there's no competitive pressure to drive it up.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.