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Stormscape Familiar

Creature — Bird

Flying
White spells and black spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
common
Set
Planeshift
Price
$0.86
EDHREC rank
#6847
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Stormscape Familiar card art
Stormscape Familiar shaves a mana off every blue and black spell you cast — that's a cost reducer stapled to a flying body, and the combination is why it slots cleanly into aristocrats and spellslinger shells alike. The Oathsworn Vampire loop and Kastral, the Windcrested builds lean on it specifically because recurring spells at discount changes what's arithmetically possible on a single turn.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Kastral, the Windcrested

Kastral, the Windcrested

39.2% of decks · synergy 0.37

Kastral, the Windcrested cares about casting spells from exile and triggering on each one, so Stormscape Familiar turns a two-mana spell into a one-mana trigger — letting you chain more activations per turn off the same mana base.

02
Bane, Lord of Darkness

Bane, Lord of Darkness

21.0% of decks · synergy 0.18

Bane, Lord of Darkness runs a heavy black suite of sacrifice and reanimation pieces, and Stormscape Familiar quietly discounts the whole package, letting Bane's engine cycle faster without demanding additional ramp.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Stormscape Familiar earns its keep — the format's slower clock means a static cost reducer compounds over a full game, and blue-black shells are common enough that it rarely sits in the wrong deck. In Pauper it competes with other cheap blue bodies and sees fringe play in control or tempo lists that can exploit the discount on multiple spells per turn. Legacy and Vintage have access to far more efficient cost reduction and combo infrastructure, so Stormscape Familiar doesn't make the cut in either format's powered shells. It's not legal in Pioneer or Standard, which keeps its demand concentrated in eternal and casual formats.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.86 bulk tier

At $0.86, Stormscape Familiar sits in bulk-rare territory — cheap enough to throw into any blue-black build without a second thought. Bulk staples at this price point rarely spike unless a new commander explicitly breaks them, so expect it to stay in this range.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.