Sophic Centaur
Creature — Centaur Spellshaper
, 
, Discard a card: You gain 2 life for each card in your hand.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Planar Chaos
- Price
- $0.12
- EDHREC rank
- #29882
Sophic Centaur is a 2/2 for four mana that lets you pay one green to prevent all damage to it — a fragile, mana-hungry body at a cost that competing green creatures lap twice over. Skip it; there is no shell where this rate is acceptable.
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 |
Sophic Centaur is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but legal doesn't mean playable. In Commander, a 2/2 for four with a reactive damage-prevention ability accomplishes nothing — the format is full of threats that end games, and Sophic Centaur trades resources to survive a single combat rather than advance a board state. In Legacy and Vintage, the competition from one- and two-mana creatures is so steep that a four-mana 2/2 with no immediate impact doesn't register. Oathbreaker shares Commander's power assumptions and the same verdict applies.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.12 bulk tier
At $0.12, Sophic Centaur sits firmly in bulk — the kind of price that reflects genuine lack of demand rather than an overlooked gem. Don't expect that to change; the card has no competitive application to spark a spike.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.