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Ardent Electromancer

Creature — Human Wizard

When this creature enters, add {R} for each creature in your party. (Your party consists of up to one each of Cleric, Rogue, Warrior, and Wizard.)

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
common
Set
Zendikar Rising
Price
$0.05
EDHREC rank
#21130
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Ardent Electromancer card art
Ardent Electromancer enters and refunds up to three mana based on the number of instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard — in the right shell, that's a free or net-positive body on turn three or four. Loop it with Emiel the Blessed and a stocked graveyard and it stops costing mana entirely.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is the primary home for Ardent Electromancer — the 99-card graveyard fills up naturally, and the mana refund scales well into the mid-game turns where the format actually plays out. In Pauper it's legal and technically interesting in spell-heavy blue-red shells, but the format's tempo demands are strict and a three-mana 2/2 that conditionally refunds mana competes poorly with creatures that generate immediate board presence. Modern, Pioneer, Legacy, and Vintage are all non-starters; the effect isn't close to efficient enough for those formats' threat density. Stick to Commander, specifically spell-matter or flicker builds where the graveyard threshold is a given rather than a question mark.

Key Combos

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Price Context

Current price

$0.05 bulk tier

At $0.05, Ardent Electromancer is deep bulk — grab a copy out of any common box without thinking twice. Demand is narrow enough that the price is unlikely to move unless a high-profile Commander deck makes the loop with Emiel the Blessed go viral.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.