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Primal Prayers

Enchantment MV 4

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What it does

When this enchantment enters, you get EE (two energy counters).

You may cast creature spells with mana value 3 or less by paying E rather than paying their mana costs. If you cast a spell this way, you may cast it as though it had flash.

Combos with Primal Prayers

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.

Showing the 6 shortest and most explosive. This card appears in more than these. Follow any of them through to Commander Spellbook to browse the rest.

Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.

Rulings

11 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2024-06-07

    Some triggered abilities state that you "may pay" a certain amount of E. You can't pay that amount multiple times to multiply the effect. You simply choose whether or not to pay that amount of E as the ability resolves.

  • 2024-06-07

    Keep track of how many energy counters each player has. Potential ways to track this include writing theme down on paper or using dice, but any method that is clear and mutually agreeable is fine. (At higher levels of tournament play, dice may not be allowed for tracking counters that players have.)

  • 2024-06-07

    Some spells and abilities that give you E may require targets. If each target chosen is an illegal target as that spell or ability tries to resolve, it won't resolve. You won't get any E.

  • 2024-06-07

    If a spell you cast this way has X in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it.

  • 2024-06-07

    Energy counters are a kind of counter that a player may have. They're not associated with any specific permanents.

  • 2024-06-07

    Some triggered abilities that state that you "may pay" a certain amount of E describe an effect that happens "If you do." In that case, no player may take actions to try to stop the ability's effect after you make your choice. If the payment is followed by the phrase "When you do," then you'll choose any targets for that reflexive triggered ability and put it on the stack before players can take actions.

  • 2024-06-07

    If an effect says you get one or more E, you get that many energy counters. To pay one or more E, you lose that many energy counters. You can't pay more energy counters than you have. Any effects that interact with counters a player gets, has, or loses can interact with energy counters.

  • 2024-06-07

    If you cast a spell for another cost "rather than paying its mana cost," you can't choose to cast it for any alternative costs. You can, however, pay additional costs, such as kicker costs. If the spell has any mandatory additional costs, those must be paid to cast it.

  • 2024-06-07

    If a spell or ability with one or more targets states that you "may pay" some amount of E, and each permanent that it targets has become an illegal target, the spell or ability won't resolve. You can't pay any E even if you want to.

  • 2024-06-07

    E is the energy symbol. It represents one energy counter.

  • 2024-06-07

    Energy counters aren't mana. They don't go away as steps, phases, and turns end, and effects that add mana "of any type" can't give you energy counters.

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Primal Prayers, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 1
Games played 0
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games, which is not enough to publish a rate yet.
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Zimone, Mystery Unraveler 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Simic 1 deck

Primal Prayers price history

The Modern Horizons 3 #166 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly.

Non-foil today$0.25▼ $0.09 (26.5%)
Low $0.20 · High $0.34Tracked since Sep 28, 2026
Every recorded price change
DateNon-foilFoil
Nov 11, 2026$0.25$0.32
Nov 3, 2026$0.25$0.32
Nov 2, 2026$0.23$0.32
Oct 31, 2026$0.20$0.32
Oct 29, 2026$0.20$0.31
Oct 27, 2026$0.21$0.33
Oct 24, 2026$0.23$0.33
Oct 23, 2026$0.22$0.33
Oct 22, 2026$0.23$0.33
Oct 21, 2026$0.22$0.34
Oct 15, 2026$0.21$0.33
Oct 14, 2026$0.20$0.33
Oct 13, 2026$0.25$0.33
Oct 12, 2026$0.24$0.33
Oct 11, 2026$0.25$0.33
Oct 9, 2026$0.26$0.32
Oct 8, 2026$0.27$0.32
Oct 6, 2026$0.26$0.32
Oct 5, 2026$0.28$0.32
Oct 4, 2026$0.30$0.32
Oct 2, 2026$0.29$0.32
Oct 1, 2026$0.30$0.31
Sep 30, 2026$0.31$0.32
Sep 29, 2026$0.33$0.32
Sep 28, 2026$0.34$0.32

A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.

Every version of Primal Prayers

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.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Primal Prayers. 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.

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