Vizkopa Confessor
Creature — Human Cleric
Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay 
. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)
When this creature enters, pay any amount of life. Target opponent reveals that many cards from their hand. You choose one of them and exile it.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BW
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Gatecrash
- Price
- $0.06
- EDHREC rank
- #22114
Vizkopa Confessor lets you look at an opponent's hand and strip a nonland card when you pay its extort trigger — a discard outlet stapled to hand information for five mana. That's too slow and too conditional for most Commander tables, where sorcery-speed single-target discard rarely swings games.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Vizkopa Confessor is a Commander card in the loosest sense — the format's slower clock makes five-mana plays more survivable, and extort has marginal value in a 40-life format. Even there, dedicated discard commanders like Tinybones, Trinket Thief or Nekusar, the Mindrazer have better tools that don't require spending mana twice to activate. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern, Pioneer, or Legacy, a five-mana creature that conditionally discards one card is simply unplayable — those formats answered this question with one-mana spells years ago. Vizkopa Confessor is a casual Commander inclusion at best, and a narrow one even there.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.06 bulk tier
At $0.06, Vizkopa Confessor is deep bulk — the kind of card you find in a dollar box without looking. That price reflects demand accurately and is unlikely to move without an unexpected reprint synergy or format shift.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.