Blatant Thievery
Sorcery
For each opponent, gain control of target permanent that player controls.
- CMC
- 7
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Explorers of Ixalan
- Price
- $3.29
- EDHREC rank
- #4737
Blatant Thievery hits every opponent at once — in a four-player game, you walk away with three permanents for a single spell. Seven mana is real, but the raw card and board advantage it generates makes it one of the strongest catch-up tools in blue, and Jeleva, Nephalia's Scourge can cast it for free off exile.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Jeleva, Nephalia's Scourge
Jeleva, Nephalia's Scourge exiles cards from opponents' libraries and casts instants and sorceries among them for free — Blatant Thievery is one of the highest-value hits she can flip, turning a single attack into a three-for-one board swing with no mana investment.
Ashling, Rekindled
Ashling, Rekindled casts instants and sorceries from graveyards, which means Blatant Thievery can be recurred and fired again after it's resolved once — that kind of repeatable mass-theft is exactly what the deck is built to abuse.
Hinata, Dawn-Crowned
Hinata, Dawn-Crowned reduces costs for each target a spell has, and Blatant Thievery targets each opponent — in a four-player game, Hinata shaves three mana off the cost, dropping it to a trivially castable four mana.
Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign
Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign casts the top card of the library for free when it connects, and Blatant Thievery's seven-mana odd cost qualifies — landing a free three-permanent theft off a combat trigger is the exact kind of high-ceiling payoff Yennett decks are hunting.
Sen Triplets
Sen Triplets already operates in the permanent-theft and hand-control space, so Blatant Thievery fits the deck's identity cleanly — stripping a permanent from each opponent compounds the disruption Sen Triplets is already applying to the table.
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 |
Blatant Thievery is a Commander card through and through — the spell's power scales directly with the number of opponents, and stealing one permanent per player means a three-for-one in a four-player pod that no other format can replicate. It's legal in Legacy and Vintage but has never seen competitive play there; seven mana is uncastable in formats where the game often ends on turn two or three, and single-target theft options are faster and cheaper for the rare situations where control wants that effect. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander multiplayer format where it's legal and the math still works in its favor, though the 20-life starting total makes games end faster and tempers how often you'll actually reach seven mana.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$3.29 cheap tier
At $3.29, Blatant Thievery sits in the cheap tier and is straightforwardly good value for what it does — a seven-mana sorcery that can swing the board by three permanents has no real functional replacement at this price point. It's been reprinted enough to stay accessible, and there's no pressure to buy in a hurry, but there's also no reason to wait.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.