Helga, Skittish Seer
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
What it does
Whenever you cast a creature spell with mana value 4 or greater, you draw a card, gain 1 life, and put a +1/+1 counter on Helga.
T: Add X mana of any one color, where X is Helga's power. Spend this mana only to cast creature spells with mana value 4 or greater or creature spells with X in their mana costs.
Combos with Helga, Skittish Seer
The lines this card is part of, what it needs alongside it, and what the cards do together. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.
- Mind Over Matter Cloudstone Curio Infinite
- Infinite self-discard triggers
- Near-infinite lifegain
- Near-infinite lifegain triggers
- Near-infinite creature ETB
- Infinite draw triggers
- Infinite looting
- Near-infinite storm count
- Near-infinite creature LTB
- Near-infinite untap of permanents you control
- Near-infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
- Near-infinite colored mana that can only be spent to cast creature spells with mana value 4 or greater or creature spells with X in their mana cost
- Near-infinite mana permanents you control can produce
- Chakram Retriever Palinchron Infinite
- Infinite card draw
- Near-infinite lifegain
- Near-infinite lifegain triggers
- Infinite draw triggers
- Near-infinite mana lands you control can produce
- Near-infinite untap of lands you control
- Near-infinite creature ETB
- Near-infinite creature LTB
- Near-infinite storm count
- Near-infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
- Near-infinite colored mana that can only be spent to cast creature spells with mana value 4 or greater or creature spells with X in their mana cost
- Chakram Retriever Venser, Shaper Savant Infinite
- Infinite card draw
- Near-infinite lifegain
- Near-infinite lifegain triggers
- Near-infinite creature ETB
- Infinite draw triggers
- Near-infinite storm count
- Near-infinite creature LTB
- Near-infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
- Near-infinite colored mana that can only be spent to cast creature spells with mana value 4 or greater or creature spells with X in their mana cost
- Mind Over Matter Palinchron Infinite
- Infinite self-discard triggers
- Near-infinite lifegain
- Near-infinite lifegain triggers
- Near-infinite creature ETB
- Infinite draw triggers
- Infinite looting
- Near-infinite storm count
- Near-infinite creature LTB
- Near-infinite untap of permanents you control
- Near-infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
- Near-infinite colored mana that can only be spent to cast creature spells with mana value 4 or greater or creature spells with X in their mana cost
- Near-infinite mana permanents you control can produce
- Mind Over Matter Venser, Shaper Savant Infinite
- Infinite self-discard triggers
- Near-infinite lifegain
- Near-infinite lifegain triggers
- Near-infinite creature ETB
- Infinite draw triggers
- Infinite looting
- Near-infinite storm count
- Near-infinite creature LTB
- Near-infinite untap of permanents you control
- Near-infinite mana permanents you control can produce
- Near-infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
- Near-infinite colored mana that can only be spent to cast creature spells with mana value 4 or greater or creature spells with X in their mana cost
- Chakram Retriever Temur Sabertooth Peregrine Drake Infinite
- Infinite card draw
- Near-infinite lifegain
- Near-infinite lifegain triggers
- Infinite draw triggers
- Near-infinite mana lands you control can produce
- Near-infinite untap of lands you control
- Near-infinite creature ETB
- Near-infinite creature LTB
- Near-infinite storm count
- Near-infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
- Near-infinite colored mana that can only be spent to cast creature spells with mana value 4 or greater or creature spells with X in their mana cost
Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.
Rulings
4 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2024-07-26
If you spend the mana added by Helga's last ability on a creature spell with X in its mana cost, the mana can be spent on any part of that spell's total cost. You're not limited to spending it only on the X part.
- 2024-07-26
Helga's last ability is a mana ability. It doesn't use the stack and can't be responded to.
- 2024-07-26
If a spell has X in its mana cost, use the value chosen for that X to determine the mana value of that spell.
- 2024-07-26
You don't have to spend all the mana added by Helga's last ability on the same spell.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
As a commander
Decks built with Helga, Skittish Seer in the command zone.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Helga, Skittish Seer, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jodah, the Unifier | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Five-Color 1 deck
Helga, Skittish Seer price history
The Bloomburrow #217 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly. Click any version below to chart its price.
Every recorded price change
| Date | Non-foil | Foil |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 3, 2026 | $4.42 | $5.16 |
| Oct 2, 2026 | $4.42 | $5.16 |
| Oct 1, 2026 | $4.45 | $5.24 |
| Sep 30, 2026 | $4.40 | $5.33 |
| Sep 29, 2026 | $4.20 | $5.33 |
| Sep 28, 2026 | $4.27 | $5.19 |
A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.
Every version of Helga, Skittish Seer
4 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly. A printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall publishes none for some of them. Click a card's art to chart that version's price above.
- Normal
- $4.42
- Foil
- $5.16
Promo
Bloomburrow Promos
- Normal
- $6.70
- Foil
- $13.10
Promo
Bloomburrow Promos
- Foil
- $15.95
Showcase
- Normal
- $8.83
- Foil
- $19.53
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Helga, Skittish Seer. It runs a name search across every version, which covers the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.
Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only. No individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.
