Sunscape Familiar
Sunscape Familiar: Creature - Wall, Planeshift. Defender. Green spells and blue spells you cast cost 1 less to cast. Prices and printings on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {1}{W}
- Mana value
- 2
- Type
- Creature - Wall
- Colour identity
- White (W)
- Power / toughness
- 0/3
- Rarity
- Common
- Set
- Planeshift (PLS)
- Released
- 2001-02-05
- Collector number
- 17
- Artist
- Brian Despain
- Commander rank
- 6,097 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
- Keywords
- Defender
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About Sunscape Familiar
Sunscape Familiar is a Magic: The Gathering card, a common white creature from Planeshift (PLS), an expansion set released in February 2001. It is collector number 17 in that set, with art by Brian Despain. It costs {1}{W} (one generic and one white mana) to cast, for a mana value of 2. It is a 0/3 creature. Its colour identity is white. It is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, Premodern, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Pauper Commander and PreDH. It has been printed in 2 sets, from Planeshift (2001) to The List (2020). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $2.58 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-02).
Card text
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Green spells and blue spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
The spirits of fallen battlemages can serve their guilds as familiars by joining with any physical form.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $2.58 (as of 2026-11-02).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Sunscape Familiar by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Legacy | Legal |
|---|---|
| Vintage | Legal |
| Pauper | Legal |
| Premodern | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Pauper Commander | Legal |
| PreDH | Legal |
Other printings of Sunscape Familiar
Sunscape Familiar has been printed in 2 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| The List (PLST) #PLS-17 | Common | 2024 |
Official rulings
Seven official rulings apply to Sunscape Familiar, newest first.
- Can never affect the colored part of the cost.
- If a spell is both green and blue, you pay {1} less, not {2} less.
- The generic X cost is still considered generic even if there is a requirement that a specific color be used for it. For example, “only black mana can be spent this way”. This distinction is important for effects which reduce the generic portion of a spell’s cost.
- The lower cost is not optional like with some other cost reducers.
- The effect is cumulative.
- If this card is sacrificed to pay part of a spell’s cost, the cost reduction still applies.
- This can lower the cost to zero, but not below zero.
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