Gitaxian Probe
- Mana cost
- {U/P}
- Type
- Sorcery
- Set
- New Phyrexia #35 (common)
- Price
- $2.90 USD
({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.)
Look at target player's hand.
Draw a card.
Gitaxian Probe has 6 printings, first in New Phyrexia (2011). EDHREC ranks it #529 among Commander cards. It appears most in Vivi Ornitier decks (24,818 on EDHREC). It has 6 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: banned
- vintage: legal
- pauper: banned
- modern: banned
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Commanders that run Gitaxian Probe most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Vivi Ornitier: 24,818 decks
- Storm, Force of Nature: 9,397 decks
- Stella Lee, Wild Card: 6,757 decks
- Lord of the Nazgûl: 5,932 decks
- Ral, Monsoon Mage // Ral, Leyline Prodigy: 5,497 decks
- Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph: 5,486 decks
- Niv-Mizzet, Parun: 5,216 decks
- Veyran, Voice of Duality: 5,055 decks
Often played with Gitaxian Probe
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : To calculate the mana value of a card with Phyrexian mana symbols in its cost, count each Phyrexian mana symbol as 1.
- : The targeted player may have no cards in their hand. You'll still draw a card.
- : Phyrexian mana is not a new color. Players can't produce Phyrexian mana.
- : If you're at 1 life or less, you can't pay 2 life.
- : A card with Phyrexian mana symbols in its mana cost is each color that appears in that mana cost, regardless of how that cost may have been paid.
- : As you cast a spell or activate an activated ability with one or more Phyrexian mana symbols in its cost, you choose how to pay for each Phyrexian mana symbol at the same time you would choose modes or choose a value for X.