Biomancer's Familiar
- Mana cost
- {G}{U}
- Type
- Creature — Mutant
- Power / toughness
- 2 / 2
- Set
- Ravnica Allegiance #158 (rare)
- Price
- $1.79 USD
Activated abilities of creatures you control cost {2} less to activate. This effect can't reduce the mana in that cost to less than one mana.
{T}: The next time target creature adapts this turn, it adapts as though it had no +1/+1 counters on it.
Biomancer's Familiar has 2 printings, first in Ravnica Allegiance (2019). EDHREC ranks it #3,045 among Commander cards. It appears most in Kenrith, the Returned King decks (10,372 on EDHREC). It has 4 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Biomancer's Familiar most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Kenrith, the Returned King: 10,372 decks
- Kenessos, Priest of Thassa: 4,283 decks
- Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy: 2,931 decks
- Tasigur, the Golden Fang: 1,616 decks
- The Pride of Hull Clade: 1,532 decks
- Tazri, Stalwart Survivor: 1,500 decks
- Gretchen Titchwillow: 1,321 decks
- Super-Skrull: 1,302 decks
Often played with Biomancer's Familiar
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : Biomancer’s Familiar affects only abilities of creatures you control on the battlefield. The costs of activated abilities of creature cards that work in other zones (such as cycling) won’t be reduced.
- : Activated abilities contain a colon. They’re generally written “[Cost]: [Effect].” Some keyword abilities are activated abilities and will have colons in their reminder text. Triggered abilities (starting with “when,” “whenever,” or “at”) are unaffected by the cost reduction ability of Biomancer’s Familiar.
- : An ability that has only one generic mana and some amount of other mana symbols in its activation cost will have its cost reduced by {1}.
- : The last ability of Biomancer’s Familiar doesn’t add or remove any counters. It just lets the creature adapt despite already having +1/+1 counters on it.