Arena Rector
Creature — Human Cleric
When this creature dies, you may exile it. If you do, search your library for a planeswalker card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Secret Lair Drop
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #8879
Arena Rector is a four-mana 1/2 that tutors any planeswalker directly onto the battlefield when it dies — no mana cost paid, no restrictions on which one. The cost is engineering your own creature's death, which white enchantment and sacrifice shells do trivially.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Rocco, Cabaretti Caterer
Rocco, Cabaretti Caterer can fetch Arena Rector at instant speed during an opponent's end step, setting up a death trigger on your turn and dropping a game-ending planeswalker for free — the two cards form a compact two-step tutor chain that requires no additional infrastructure.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Arena Rector lives. The singleton format means the planeswalker you fetch is almost always the most powerful one in your deck, and the multiplayer threat density means someone will kill your creatures for you. In Legacy and Vintage, Arena Rector is legal but has never found a real home — four mana is too slow for those formats, and the death trigger is too conditional when faster, unconditional answers exist. Oathbreaker is the one other format worth mentioning: fetching your signature spell's partner planeswalker for free is a real line, though the format's smaller card pool limits how degenerate it gets.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Current pricing data isn't available in this page's context, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the live number. Arena Rector has historically held value due to low reprint equity and consistent Commander demand — it sees play in enough tutor-heavy white decks that copies don't sit unsold for long.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.