Capricious Sorcerer
Creature — Human Wizard Sorcerer
: This creature deals 1 damage to any target. Activate only during your turn, before attackers are declared.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Portal
- Price
- $2.16
- EDHREC rank
- #25733
Capricious Sorcerer locks down a permanent on entry and keeps it locked as long as it stays in play — repeatable stax on a creature body is the entire pitch. The cost is that it blanks one of your own permanents too, so you need a deck that can exploit the symmetry or doesn't care.
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 Capricious Sorcerer earns its slot — three opponents mean three targets worth blanking, and the ability to freeze a problematic commander, combo piece, or engine permanent for the table's duration is real leverage. In 1v1 Legacy and Vintage, where the card is legal, the symmetry is much harder to ignore and faster formats punish a three-mana do-nothing-on-the-stack creature severely. Oathbreaker mirrors the Commander dynamic at a smaller scale, and decks that can sacrifice or blink Capricious Sorcerer reset the lock on demand, making it meaningfully stronger there than a static read suggests.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$2.16 cheap tier
At $2.16, Capricious Sorcerer sits in the cheap tier — low enough to slot in without a budget conversation. Stax pieces with repeatable effects tend to hold modest price floors as long as the Commander format stays popular, so this isn't a card you need to rush for but also isn't one you'll regret picking up now.
Explore
Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.