Watcher of the Spheres card art

Watcher of the Spheres

Creature — Bird Wizard MV 2

Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.

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.

Decks running it 5
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
Choco, Seeker of Paradise 1 0 —
Isperia, Supreme Judge 1 0 —
The Ur-Sphinx 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Azorius 1 deck
  • Esper 1 deck
  • Bant 1 deck

Watcher of the Spheres price history

The Core Set 2021 #227 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly.

Non-foil today$0.64▲ $0.01 (1.6%)
Low $0.53 · High $0.75Tracked since Sep 28, 2026
Every recorded price change
DateNon-foilFoil
Nov 11, 2026$0.64$6.82
Nov 10, 2026$0.65$7.04
Nov 9, 2026$0.64$7.04
Nov 5, 2026$0.67$7.04
Nov 4, 2026$0.65$6.58
Nov 3, 2026$0.69$6.58
Nov 2, 2026$0.70$6.58
Oct 30, 2026$0.75$6.58
Oct 29, 2026$0.74$6.67
Oct 27, 2026$0.69$6.80
Oct 26, 2026$0.66$6.70
Oct 25, 2026$0.67$6.65
Oct 24, 2026$0.65$6.65
Oct 23, 2026$0.68$6.65
Oct 22, 2026$0.64$6.65
Oct 20, 2026$0.63$6.65
Oct 19, 2026$0.65$6.65
Oct 18, 2026$0.68$6.65
Oct 17, 2026$0.66$6.65
Oct 16, 2026$0.70$6.65
Oct 15, 2026$0.66$6.65
Oct 14, 2026$0.61$6.65
Oct 13, 2026$0.60$6.65
Oct 12, 2026$0.55$6.65
Oct 10, 2026$0.56$6.65
Oct 9, 2026$0.56$6.10
Oct 8, 2026$0.55$6.10
Oct 7, 2026$0.58$6.10
Oct 6, 2026$0.56$6.10
Oct 5, 2026$0.57$6.10
Oct 4, 2026$0.53$6.10
Oct 2, 2026$0.57$6.10
Oct 1, 2026$0.56$6.10
Sep 30, 2026$0.58$6.10
Sep 29, 2026$0.55$6.10
Sep 28, 2026$0.63$6.10

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

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 publishes none for some of them.

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. 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.