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Aura Finesse

Instant

Attach target Aura you control to target creature.
Draw a card.

CMC
1
Mana cost
{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
common
Set
Rise of the Eldrazi
Price
$0.12
EDHREC rank
#17809
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Aura Finesse card art
Aura Finesse moves any Aura you control to a new legal target for a single blue mana, then replaces itself with a card draw — a tempo play and a cantrip wrapped into one instant. Eriette, the Beguiler runs it to redirect an Aura mid-combat or in response to removal, keeping the engine intact; Codie, Vociferous Codex shells that chain spells appreciate the free card even when the bounce effect is incidental.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Eriette, the Beguiler

Eriette, the Beguiler

25.5% of decks · synergy 0.25

Eriette, the Beguiler's whole game is keeping Auras on opponents' creatures to drain life every upkeep, and Aura Finesse lets her dodge targeted removal or pivot an Aura to a more threatening creature at instant speed — all while drawing a card to replace itself.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Aura Finesse is a Commander card first and last — Aura-centric commanders have enough density of enchantments and political targets to make the redirection genuinely useful rather than situational. In Pauper, it fits narrow Aura-aggro builds but competes with cantrips that don't require an Aura already in play. Legacy and Vintage are legal formats on paper, but a one-mana instant that does nothing without an Aura already attached has no real home in those formats' more efficient ecosystems. Stick to Commander, specifically to commanders that are actively building around Auras.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.12 bulk tier

At $0.12, Aura Finesse is deep bulk — it costs less than the sleeve you'll put it in. The price reflects its narrow role: it's a four-of only in a deck built around Auras, and those decks are Commander singletons, so demand stays low and the floor here is permanent.

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