Blinding Mage
Creature — Human Wizard
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: Tap target creature.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Iconic Masters
- Price
- $0.13
- EDHREC rank
- #18784
Blinding Mage turns one mana per turn into a repeatable tap on any creature — a soft lock engine that scales with how many threats your opponents deploy. The cost is speed: two mana to deploy and one activation means it competes with your own turn, and it dies to any incidental removal before it pays off.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Blinding Mage is a niche inclusion in white tap-matters builds or prison shells where denying one blocker or attacker per turn meaningfully warps the board state. It's too slow and too easily answered for Legacy, Vintage, or Modern, where permanent-based tap effects lose to the sheer speed of those formats. Pauper is its most natural competitive home — common-legal creature control is valuable there, and a repeatable tap on a 1/1 body is real utility at the common slot.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.13 bulk tier
At $0.13, Blinding Mage is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not card value. It won't appreciate, but it doesn't need to: if it fits your build, the entry cost is negligible.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.