Vizier of the Menagerie

Creature — Snake Cleric

You may look at the top card of your library. (You may do this at any time)

You may cast the top card of your library if it's a creature card.

You may spend mana as though it were mana of any type to cast creature spells.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Alchemy	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Freeform	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Pre-release	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Standard	Legal
Standard Brawl	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (49)

Polaris on Vizier of the Menagerie works …

1 week ago

No, the abilities don't actually interact. Animar, Soul of Elements reduces the mana cost by some amount of generic mana, down to a miniumum of removing all generic mana pips. Vizier of the Menagerie applies when you actually go to pay the cost by allowing you to spend any type of mana to pay it.

So for example, if you were to cast Simic Sky Swallower and had 10 counters on Animar, the cost would be reduced by up to {10}. In this case, that would reduce the cost by {5}, leaving you {U}{G} to pay. Because of Vizier, you could pay any 2 mana you had available for the remaining cost.

schwarzette on Vizier of the Menagerie works …

1 week ago

Does the (You may spend mana as though it were mana of any type to cast creature spells) on Vizier of the Menagerie work on Animar, Soul of Elements generic mana counters thingy? Like if i have lets say 10 counters on Animar already and have Vizier on the battlefield as well. Would that make me be able to cast creatures with colored mana for free as well?

DemonDragonJ on Don't Blink, or You'll Miss It!

1 year ago

I have replaced Vizier of the Menagerie with Eladamri, Korvecdal, which reduced the average converted mana cost of this deck from 3.35 to 3.33, which is very nice, because Eladamri's ability shall be most useful for this deck.

leon_bulminot on Animar

1 year ago

Best card I’ve seen for Animar because one: it generates mana and paired with something like Vizier of the Menagerie, you go infinite with Animar.

Grinning Ignus. He is self explanatory with Animar. And even if you don’t have the ability to go infinite, make everything a Mountain and you can dump multiple counters on Animar each turn with him. Add in something like Altar of the Brood and now you are doing damage with him to decks.

Now if you want a game winning/play your entire deck Combo: Animar with 2 counters, Birgi, God of Storytelling  ^Flip, Grinning Ignus, and Urza, Lord High Artificer. Animar and Birgi being down, bounce Grinning a million times. You’ll have more than enough mana to cast anything using colorless mana. That’s where Urza comes in with his 5 cost ability. Game over.

Now switch Urza out for Altar of the Brood. Milling wins. And even for someone playing Phyrexian Unlife, you still win.

Best part is if you don’t like the infinite combos, just add Grinning Ignus and leave Birgi and Vizier out. Without a way to generate red mana or use colorless mana as red mana, Grinning is great for rebuilding Animar when someone removes him.

AstralKingKazma on Omnath, Locus of All EDH

2 years ago

Suggestions: Vizier of the Menagerie, Augur of Autumn, Seedborn Muse

seshiro_of_the_orochi on Nikya, Thinking is Frustrating

3 years ago

Sorry for the double post, but I forgot to suggest Vizier of the Menagerie.

multimedia on Is Vizier of the Menagerie …

3 years ago

Yes, that's enough creatures to get consistent value from Vizier of the Menagerie.

Vizier is better for your deck than Skyward Eye Prophets which is too much mana for what it does. Skyward could be replaced by Whitemane Lion? Whiteman lets you trigger Chulane many times because it can bounce itself, even on opponent turns because it has flash.

Whitemane Lion and Shrieking Drake are some creature reasons to play Vizier of the Menagerie because you want all white or all blue mana to keep casting these creatures to keep triggering Chulane.

DemonDragonJ on Is Vizier of the Menagerie …

3 years ago

I have a copy of Vizier of the Menagerie in my Chulane, Teller of Tales EDH deck, but I wonder if that deck contains a sufficient number of creatures to justify the inclusion of the vizier, so I would like to ask the members of this forum for their opinion.

That deck contains 31 creatures, including Chulane and the vizier, which is almost one-third of the deck, which is not too bad, in my mind, but I wonder if that is sufficient, or if I should replace the vizier with another creature that has an ability that triggers when the creature enters the battlefield.

What does everyone else say about this? Does my Chulane deck contain sufficient number of creatures to justify the inclusion of Vizier of the Menagerie?