Stone Docent
Creature — Spirit Chimera
, Exile this card from your graveyard: You gain 2 life. Surveil 1. Activate only as a sorcery. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Secrets of Strixhaven
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #26570
Stone Docent turns each instant or sorcery you cast into a 1/1 blue Bird with flying — repeatable aerial pressure stapled to your spell suite. Five mana is a real ask, but in spell-heavy blue decks that was already a Scholars subtheme, the token generation starts immediately and compounds fast.
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 |
Stone Docent is a Commander card almost exclusively. In 60-card formats it competes with far more efficient token generators and the five-mana slot is brutally contested, so it sees essentially no play in Legacy, Modern, or Pioneer. Pauper is where budget spell-token synergies live, but even there the format rewards cheaper, more redundant engines. In Commander, Stone Docent finds its home in Izzet or Jeskai spellslinger builds that already want to cast instants and sorceries every turn — the incremental air force it generates lines up naturally with commanders that reward spell count.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Stone Docent is deep bulk — you'll find it in a common box long before you need to buy a copy. Bulk rares with narrow homes rarely appreciate, so treat it as a free inclusion if the synergy fits rather than a pickup with any financial upside.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.