Starfield Vocalist – Edge of Eternities
Date Reviewed: August 6, 2025
Ratings:
Constructed: 3.37
Casual: 3.88
Limited: 3.25
Multiplayer: 3.55
Commander [EDH]: 3.85
Ratings are based on a 1 to 5 scale. 1 is bad. 3 is average. 5 is great.
Reviews Below:
Here to sing the song of her people, Starfield Vocalist is an interesting enough prospect, the effect of Panharmonicon on a warm body that also is agnostic towards permanent type. It costs the same price…but warp lets you get the effect for one turn at a discount, and discounts can sometimes really help you to go off. While this being blue makes it less splashable, you can still figure out plenty of ways to abuse this effect, and if you line things up, one turn can be enough. I feel like this is a card that will have plenty of homes, and while they aren’t the same homes as Panharmonicon, there will also be other places this shines, like using Hedron and Ruin Crab effects to obliterate decks (to name an idea).
Constructed: 3.25 (I think it’s a bit too fiddly to really shine in Constructed, but I could be wrong)
Casual: 4.25
Limited: 3
Multiplayer: 3.5
Commander [EDH]: 4
Thijs
There was a lot of talk about this card before it was released. People were comparing it to Panharmonicon and Elesh Norn and it got a lot of excitement. That excitement seems to have waned some. The warp ability – which I think works a charm in a lot of cards – might come in handy for some decks, but I doubt it will see a lot of play in Standard (maybe in Simic Blink).
It does however seem to come in handy in a lot of Commander decks. This singer of tunes can trigger many abilities in commanders, like for example in Zinnia, Valley’s Voice. Making a ton of tokens and copying this baritone’s abilities makes for a nice addition.
The copying of effects has been rather popular in the last few sets. We’ve seen Traveling Chocobo, Gandalf the White and a card like Annie Joins Up. It’s an interesting concept, it also makes for even more complicated board states and games. Keeping an eye on all triggers suddenly becomes a day job, making ’10-minute turns’ become even more prolific.
I like the card, I like the art, I like the ability. We’ll have to see if this galactic musician finds a spot somewhere.
Constructed: 3,5
Casual: 3,5
Limited: 3,5 (building a deck around it is hard, but if it hits, it hits)
Multiplayer: 3,6
Commander [EDH]: 3,7
Sing me a song of a lad that is gone;
Say, could that lad be I?
Now that comes-into-play triggers are well established in all colors, an effect like Starfield Vocalist can be extremely dangerous. Of course, when you have enough such triggers to consistently have them around, you also have enough to generate a significant advantage without doubling them. At some point, it just becomes a win-more card, and it is of course not very effective without other cards. I’ll note, though, that the option of the warp cost adds some good flexibility, because it’s cheap enough that you can sneak it in for one big turn while holding up something with which to protect it. I suspect it’ll get the most play as an extra or backup Panharmonicon effect – that’s not a bad place to be.
Constructed: 3
Casual: 3.5
Limited: 3
Multiplayer: 3.5
Commander [EDH]: 3.5
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