Mercurial Chemister
- Mana cost
- {3}{U}{R}
- Type
- Creature — Human Wizard
- Power / toughness
- 2 / 3
- Set
- Commander 2017 #180 (rare)
- Price
- $0.36 USD
{U}, {T}: Draw two cards.
{R}, {T}, Discard a card: This creature deals damage to target creature equal to the discarded card's mana value.
Mercurial Chemister has 4 printings, first in Return to Ravnica (2012). EDHREC ranks it #15,863 among Commander cards. It appears most in Mairsil, the Pretender decks (720 on EDHREC). 2 public decks on TCG run it. It has 2 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Public decks that run Mercurial Chemister
- Arcane Wizardry - Commander 2017, led by Inalla, Archmage Ritualist
- Timeless Wisdom - Commander 2020, led by Gavi, Nest Warden
Commanders that run Mercurial Chemister most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Mairsil, the Pretender: 720 decks
- Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind: 162 decks
- Niv-Mizzet, Dracogenius: 44 decks
- Ludevic, Necro-Alchemist: 3 decks
Often played with Mercurial Chemister
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : If the discarded card has no mana symbols in its upper right corner (because it's a land card, for example), its mana value is 0.
- : If the discarded card has {X} in its mana cost, X is 0.