Watcher of the Spheres
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
Flying
Creature spells with flying you cast cost 1 less to cast.
Whenever another creature you control with flying enters, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
Rulings
3 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2020-06-23
The cost reduction applies only to generic mana in the cost of creature spells with flying you cast. For example, if you cast a second Watcher of the Spheres, its cost won't be reduced below .
- 2020-06-23
To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost you're paying, add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions (such as that of Watcher of the Spheres). The mana value of the spell remains unchanged, no matter what the total cost to cast it was.
- 2020-06-23
A creature spell that doesn't have flying won't cost less even if an effect will cause the creature to have flying once on the battlefield. This is also true if the creature spell itself has an ability that gives it flying once on the battlefield under certain conditions, even if those conditions are true.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Watcher of the Spheres, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Isperia, Supreme Judge | 1 | 0 | — |
| The Ur-Sphinx | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Azorius 1 deck
- Esper 1 deck
Every version of Watcher of the Spheres
1 printing, 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 genuinely publishes none for some of them.
- Normal
- $0.63
- Foil
- $6.10
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Watcher of the Spheres — a name search across every version, for 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.
