
Card database
Biomancer's Familiar
Legal
Type line
Creature — Mutant
Oracle text
Activated abilities of creatures you control cost less to activate. This effect can't reduce the mana in that cost to less than one mana. : The next time target creature adapts this turn, it adapts as though it had no +1/+1 counters on it.
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.2019-01-25
- 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.2019-01-25
- 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 .2019-01-25
- 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.2019-01-25
Market price
$1.76
Commanders that play this card
Use over time
3 public decks with Biomancer's Familiar saved in the last 12 weeks, by the week each was last saved. Approximate: a deck counts in the week it was saved, not every week it held the card.
Jul 27This week
Often played with
Across the 4 public decks that play Biomancer's Familiar. That's a thin sample — treat these as observations, not staples.
4 of 4 (100%)
4 of 4 (100%)
4 of 4 (100%)
4 of 4 (100%)
4 of 4 (100%)
4 of 4 (100%)
4 of 4 (100%)
4 of 4 (100%)
4 of 4 (100%)
4 of 4 (100%)


