Auramancer's Guise
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 for each Aura attached to it and has vigilance.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Planar Chaos
- Price
- $0.63
- EDHREC rank
- #8881
Auramancer's Guise stacks +2/+2 and vigilance for every Aura attached to the enchanted creature — in a deck that piles on four or five Auras, that's a 10/10 with vigilance for four mana. Bruna, Light of Alabaster already cheats Auras into play for free, so Guise turns every attack into a threat that scales with the board state rather than a fixed number.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Bruna, Light of Alabaster
Bruna, Light of Alabaster attaches Auras for free on attack, so Auramancer's Guise becomes an exponential pump spell — each additional Aura stacked by Bruna's ability makes Guise hit harder, and vigilance means the creature never taps down between those explosive swings.
Ivy, Gleeful Spellthief
Ivy, Gleeful Spellthief copies spells targeting other creatures, so casting Auramancer's Guise on an opponent's creature automatically puts a free copy on Ivy — immediately doubling the bonus without spending an extra card.
Arna Kennerüd, Skycaptain
Arna Kennerüd, Skycaptain copies Auras whenever they attach to Arna, so Auramancer's Guise lands twice — both copies stacking their bonuses on the same board and compounding the +2/+2-per-Aura math faster than normal.
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 Auramancer's Guise does its real work — the format's slower clock and Voltron-friendly legendaries give it time to accumulate the Aura density that makes the scaling bonus devastating. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but unplayable; those formats have no patience for a four-mana enchantment that does nothing the turn it enters without setup. Modern is the same story — Aura-based strategies there lean on Kor Spiritdancer and Sram, Senior Edificer for immediate card advantage, and Guise's conditional power boost rarely closes games fast enough to compete. Oathbreaker mirrors the Commander dynamic and can work in the right Aura-heavy list.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.63 bulk tier
At $0.63, Auramancer's Guise sits comfortably in bulk rare territory — cheap enough to pick up without a second thought for any Aura-matters build. It's a narrow card with a specific home, so don't expect the price to move much in either direction.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Bruna, Light of Alabaster
- Ivy, Gleeful Spellthief
- Arna Kennerüd, Skycaptain
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.