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Beck // Call

Sorcery // Sorcery

Whenever a creature enters this turn, you may draw a card.
Fuse (You may cast one or both halves of this card from your hand.)

CMC
8
Mana cost
{G}{U}
Color identity
GUW
Rarity
rare
Set
The List
Price
$0.49
EDHREC rank
#16404
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Beck // Call card art
Beck // Call turns every creature entering the battlefield into a draw trigger — cast Beck on the turn your engine goes off and you draw your entire deck for two mana. The Locust God and Phelddagrif treat it as a must-run; everyone else should treat it as a two-mana "win the game" condition stapled to a late-game token finisher.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Phelddagrif

Phelddagrif

15.2% of decks · synergy 0.14

Phelddagrif hands hippos to opponents each activation, and Beck // Call converts every one of those gifted tokens into a card drawn for you — turning political generosity into a private draw engine that refills your hand faster than anyone at the table expects.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where Beck // Call lives and dies — the format's reliance on creature-based engines means Beck's draw trigger scales absurdly, and the Call half backstops games where Beck arrives too late to matter. In Legacy and Vintage it's a fringe option in token or Elf combo shells that can flood the board instantly, but dedicated draw spells do the job more reliably at those paces. Modern sees occasional play in creature-storm adjacents, though the two-color requirement limits the shells that can support it cleanly. Pioneer is legal but the card sees essentially no play there — the format lacks the density of cheap creature production that makes Beck worth a slot.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

2 decks
Nadir KrakenBeck // CallAshnod's Altar

Nadir KrakenBeck // CallAshnod's Altar

Infinite card draw; Near-infinite creature tokens; Near-infinite LTB; Near-infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite draw triggers; Near-infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature; Near-infinite colorless mana; Near-infinite death triggers; Near-infinite ETB

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Price Context

Current price

$0.49 bulk tier

At $0.49, Beck // Call is bulk in price only — it's one of the most powerful two-mana draw effects in Commander and has no business being this cheap. It holds value easily at this tier; any reprint would have to be wide to push it meaningfully lower.

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