Argent Dais
Artifact
This artifact enters with two oil counters on it.
Whenever two or more creatures attack, put an oil counter on this artifact.
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, Remove two oil counters from this artifact: Exile another target nonland permanent. Its controller draws two cards.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Modern Horizons 3
- Price
- $0.25
- EDHREC rank
- #8826
Argent Dais turns every instant and sorcery into a looting effect — draw a card, discard a card — which sounds modest until you realize it stacks across a full spellslinger turn. The cost is real: five mana to land it, and it does nothing without a critical mass of noncreature spells, so slower or creature-heavy builds have no use for it.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Elesh Norn
Elesh Norn's chapter III ability exiles and replays spells from the graveyard, and Argent Dais turns every one of those replays into a loot trigger — the two cards work in a tight loop where Elesh Norn's recast engine feeds Argent Dais's filtering while the graveyard keeps refilling.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Argent Dais earns its slot — spellslinger and reanimator builds run enough instants and sorceries to make the looting relevant, and a five-mana artifact is perfectly acceptable in a format with 40-life pacing. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but irrelevant; no competitive shell wants a five-mana do-nothing-immediately artifact when Treasure Cruise and Brainstorm exist. Modern is the same story — the rate simply doesn't compete. Argent Dais is a Commander card, full stop.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.25 bulk tier
At $0.25, Argent Dais sits firmly in bulk territory — you're paying almost nothing for a card with real upside in the right shell. Bulk rares from recent sets rarely climb unless a commander breaks them wide open, so treat this as a cheap pickup for the decks that want it, not a spec.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Elesh Norn
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.