Bag of Tricks
Artifact
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: Roll a d8. Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a creature card with mana value equal to the result. Put that card onto the battlefield and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Forgotten Realms Commander
- Price
- $0.29
- EDHREC rank
- #15977
Bag of Tricks puts a free damage trigger on the table the turn it resolves — no mana investment beyond the cast, and the effect repeats every time you flip a creature into combat. The catch is variance: you're relying on whatever sits on top of your library, which makes it a build-around rather than a generic inclusion, and Vrondiss, Rage of Ancients is the commander that makes that variance irrelevant by turning every trigger into a token chain.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Vrondiss, Rage of Ancients
Vrondiss, Rage of Ancients is in nearly half of all Bag of Tricks decks because the interaction is self-fueling: Bag of Tricks deals damage to Vrondiss, Vrondiss spawns a Dragon Spirit token, and if that token was the card revealed, you've already got your next attacker lined up to restart the loop.
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 |
Bag of Tricks is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but the only format where it sees real play is Commander. In Legacy and Vintage, the effect is too slow and too random to compete with the card-quality tools those formats provide. Commander is its natural home: the longer game rewards repeatable damage triggers, singleton construction means your revealed creature is always a surprise, and commanders like Vrondiss, Rage of Ancients exist specifically to abuse the trigger every turn. Oathbreaker is theoretically playable but the smaller deck size makes the randomness less forgiving.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.29 bulk tier
At $0.29, Bag of Tricks is deep bulk — the kind of card you pull from a dollar box rather than buy singles for. That price is stable simply because demand is narrow and supply is not; it won't climb meaningfully unless a new commander pushes the archetype into the mainstream.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Vrondiss, Rage of Ancients
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.