Balshan Beguiler
Creature — Human Wizard
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player reveals the top two cards of their library. You choose one of those cards and put it into their graveyard.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Odyssey
- Price
- $0.15
- EDHREC rank
- #29430
Balshan Beguiler steals a creature every turn cycle for the low cost of tapping and discarding a card — repeatable mind control stapled to a body is genuinely powerful. The discard cost is the ceiling: in decks that don't want cards in the graveyard, it's a liability, but in any blue shell that benefits from pitching cards, it's a serious threat.
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 Balshan Beguiler actually lives — repeatable theft of an opponent's best creature every turn is the kind of persistent pressure multiplayer games reward, and blue discard-synergy commanders turn the activation cost into a feature rather than a tax. Legacy and Vintage are legal formats, but a five-mana 2/2 with a tap-and-discard activation is nowhere near the power level those formats demand. Oathbreaker is legal and mirrors the Commander calculus: the card shines when the discard fuels something, fades when it's pure cost.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.15 bulk tier
At $0.15, Balshan Beguiler is deep bulk — you're paying almost nothing for a repeatable theft effect. That price is stable simply because the card sees minimal competitive demand, but at a dime and a half it's a zero-regret pickup for any discard-synergy Commander build.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.