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Prescient Chimera

Creature — Chimera3 generic manaBlue manaBlue mana

The reward attached to a spell-heavy deck, sized for the part of the curve where a flier this resilient still earns its keep. The 3/4 body is doing quiet load-bearing work: it survives the small-flier exchanges and shrugs off most cheap burn, so it sticks around long enough for the scry trigger to compound across a turn cycle of cantrips and removal. That trigger fires on the cast, not on resolution, which means even a countered or fizzled spell still smooths your next draw; the engine cares that you pointed the spell, not that it landed. Each scry is only one card deep, so the payoff is incremental rather than explosive, but a deck built to cast multiple instants and sorceries per turn turns that drip into meaningful filtering, shaving the dead draws off the top before they arrive. It belongs to the broad lineage of blue spell-payoff creatures that ask you to build around an instant-and-sorcery density rather than a single combo: a self-contained value piece that does honest work for any control or tempo shell willing to lean on its noncreature spells, without demanding anything beyond casting the cards that deck already wants to cast.

Prescient Chimera (ths)
THS · #59common
Pricing
Normal: $0.06
Foil: $0.36
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

1 set
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