Thaumaturge's Familiar
Artifact Creature — Bird
Flying
When this creature enters, scry 1.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Jumpstart 2022
- Price
- $0.11
- EDHREC rank
- #22366
Thaumaturge's Familiar puts a flying body on board while shaving a mana off your next spell — it's a two-for-one effect stapled to a creature that blocks and threatens. The cost is that it does nothing in isolation: no immediate board impact, no guarantee the discount ever fires if the Familiar dies on arrival.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Thaumaturge's Familiar earns its slot in spellslinger or wizard-tribal builds where the cost reduction chains into a meaningful follow-up on the same turn. Pauper is where Thaumaturge's Familiar has the most competitive ceiling — evasive bodies with attached value are at a premium in a format without expensive haymakers. In Modern and Pioneer the card is legal but irrelevant; the power floor for a three-mana 2/2 with a conditional discount is well below what those formats demand. Legacy and Vintage lists have no reason to look at it.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.11 bulk tier
At $0.11, Thaumaturge's Familiar is deep bulk — buy a playset for less than the shipping cost concern. Cards at this tier rarely move unless a combo or competitive archetype adopts them, and nothing in the current landscape pushes that price up.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.