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Viscera Seer

Creature — Vampire Wizard

Sacrifice a creature: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

CMC
1
Mana cost
{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
common
Set
Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander
Price
$0.47
EDHREC rank
#254
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Viscera Seer card art
Viscera Seer is the cleanest sacrifice outlet in black — a one-mana 1/1 that turns any creature death into a scry, and costs nothing beyond the initial cast to keep firing. In engines that generate disposable tokens alongside value pieces like Pitiless Plunderer or creature-flood commanders like Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder, the repeatable library filtering is a meaningful advantage on top of enabling combos for free.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder

Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder

80.4% of decks · synergy 0.63

Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder needs a sacrifice outlet to prevent his own triggered ability from destroying him when thrull count hits five, and Viscera Seer fills that role on a one-mana body that also filters draws turn after turn.

02
Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker

Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker

76.9% of decks · synergy 0.60

Viscera Seer's power is 1, so Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker returns it from the graveyard at end of turn after you sacrifice it — making the Seer a permanent, reset-each-turn engine rather than a one-shot enabler.

04
Marchesa, the Black Rose

Marchesa, the Black Rose

55.6% of decks · synergy 0.52

Viscera Seer lets Marchesa, the Black Rose decks sacrifice creatures with +1/+1 counters on demand, triggering Marchesa's recursion at end of turn and generating a scry with every loop.

05
Meren of Clan Nel Toth

Meren of Clan Nel Toth

67.1% of decks · synergy 0.51

Every sacrifice through Viscera Seer puts an experience counter on Meren of Clan Nel Toth and digs a card deeper toward the next recursion target, making the Seer a dual-function piece that accelerates both the experience engine and library quality.

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 the natural home for Viscera Seer — the format's creature-heavy graveyards and combo-centric sacrifice loops reward a zero-activation-cost outlet more than any other format does. In Pauper, Viscera Seer sees real play as a combo enabler in sacrifice shells, where its common print makes it format-legal and its scry keeps creature-based loops from bricking. Legacy and Vintage have access to faster and more broken sacrifice outlets, so Viscera Seer barely registers in those formats outside of fringe creature combo decks. Modern has enough competition from Carrion Feeder and Altar's Reap effects that the Seer is a role-player at best, though it remains a solid budget option if the deck specifically wants a non-zero-power body that survives certain protection effects.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

27,589 decks
Pitiless PlundererGravecrawlerViscera Seer

Pitiless PlundererGravecrawlerViscera Seer

Infinite LTB; Infinite ETB; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite death triggers; Infinite scry 1; Infinite storm count; Infinite Treasure tokens; Infinite colored mana; Infinite colorless mana; Infinite creature tokens

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Price Context

Current price

$0.47 bulk tier

At $0.47, Viscera Seer is firmly bulk — you can pick up a playset for under two dollars and it belongs in that price tier given its print volume. The price is stable; this card sees enough demand from Commander and Pauper to keep it from dropping to true penny-rare status, but widespread printings mean it won't meaningfully climb either.

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