Chemister's Insight

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Chemister's Insight: Instant, Ravnica: Clue Edition. Draw two cards. Jump-start. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.

Mana cost
{3}{U}
Mana value
4
Type
Instant
Colour identity
Blue (U)
Rarity
Uncommon
Set
Ravnica: Clue Edition (CLU)
Released
2024-02-23
Collector number
81
Artist
Josh Hass
Commander rank
7,885 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
Keywords
Jump, Jump-start

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About Chemister's Insight

Chemister's Insight is a Magic: The Gathering card, an uncommon blue instant from Ravnica: Clue Edition (CLU), a draft-focused set released in February 2024. It is collector number 81 in that set, with art by Josh Hass. It costs {3}{U} (three generic and one blue mana) to cast, for a mana value of 4. Its colour identity is blue. It is legal in Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Historic, Timeless and Gladiator. It has been printed in 5 sets, from Guilds of Ravnica (2018) to Ravnica: Clue Edition (2024). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.19 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-12).

Card text

Draw two cards.

Jump-start (You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding a card in addition to paying its other costs. Then exile this card.)

"My specialty is theoretical universal limits and ways to circumvent them."

Market price

Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.19 (as of 2026-11-12).

The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.

Format legality

Legality of Chemister's Insight by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.

PioneerLegal
ModernLegal
LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
CommanderLegal
Duel CommanderLegal
OathbreakerLegal
BrawlLegal
HistoricLegal
TimelessLegal
GladiatorLegal

Other printings of Chemister's Insight

Chemister's Insight has been printed in 5 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.

PrintingRarityYear
The List (PLST) #GRN-32Uncommon2020
Commander 2020 (C20) #108Uncommon2020
Commander 2019 (C19) #80Uncommon2019
Guilds of Ravnica (GRN) #32Uncommon2018

Official rulings

Four official rulings apply to Chemister's Insight, newest first.

  • If a card with jump-start is put into your graveyard during your turn, you'll be able to cast it right away if it's legal to do so, before an opponent can take any actions.
  • You must still follow any timing restrictions and permissions when casting a spell with jump-start, including those based on the card's type. For instance, you can cast a sorcery using jump-start only when you could normally cast a sorcery.
  • A spell cast using jump-start will always be exiled afterward, whether it resolves, it's countered, or it leaves the stack in some other way.
  • If an effect allows you to pay an alternative cost rather than a spell's mana cost, you may pay that alternative cost when you jump-start a spell. You'll still discard a card as an additional cost to cast it.

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