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Campus Composer // Aqueous Aria

Creature — Merfolk Bard // Sorcery

Ward {2}
This creature enters prepared. (While it's prepared, you may cast a copy of its spell. Doing so unprepares it.)

CMC
4
Mana cost
{3}{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Secrets of Strixhaven
Price
$0.10
EDHREC rank
#25866
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Campus Composer // Aqueous Aria card art
Campus Composer // Aqueous Aria puts a triggered draw engine on the board the moment you flip it — every Wizard or Merfolk entry draws a card, and Displacer Kitten turns that into a repeatable loop that empties your library. The full package costs three mana on the front and four on the back, which is reasonable for what amounts to a permanent Rhystic Study in the right shell.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where Campus Composer // Aqueous Aria does its best work — tribal decks built around Wizards or Merfolk treat the back half as an engine piece that snowballs fast once creatures start hitting the board. In Standard and Pioneer it's a fringe playable, too slow for the format's tempo demands unless you're specifically leaning on the tribal synergy. Legacy and Vintage don't want a four-mana setup piece when faster draw engines exist at lower cost. Oathbreaker mirrors the Commander read: strong in a dedicated shell, irrelevant outside one.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.10 bulk tier

At $0.10, Campus Composer // Aqueous Aria is bulk — you're getting a powerful tribal engine for essentially nothing. Price will stay flat unless a competitive tribal deck breaks into a high-profile meta, so pick up copies freely without worrying about overpaying.

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