Cecily, Haunted Mage
Legendary Creature — Human Wizard
Your maximum hand size is eleven.
Whenever Cecily, Haunted Mage attacks, you draw a card and you lose 1 life. Then if you have eleven or more cards in your hand, you may cast an instant or sorcery spell from your hand without paying its mana cost.
Partner—Friends forever (You can have two commanders if both have this ability.)
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BRU
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Secret Lair Drop
- Price
- $24.84
- EDHREC rank
- #11854
Cecily, Haunted Mage generates a Spirit token and draws a card whenever another Spirit enters under your control — stacking both resources on top of each other every time your board grows. That combination of tempo and card advantage on a two-mana body makes her an immediate include in any Spirit-tribal shell.
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 Cecily, Haunted Mage earns her keep — Spirit tribal has enough critical mass in the format that she can trigger four or five times in a single turn cycle without much effort. Legacy and Vintage are both legal homes, but neither format has a Spirit-tribal shell that wants a three-mana value engine over raw interaction, so she's almost entirely a Commander card in practice. Oathbreaker is legal as well, and a Spirit-themed build there could use her as the planeswalker's signature spell, though the 60-card singleton constraint limits how reliably you assemble the tribe.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
Cecily, Haunted Mage bundles draw and token generation into one card; splitting those roles is the cheapest way to approximate her. Inspired Sphinx and similar draw-on-token-entry effects can fill the card-advantage half, while something like Spectral Reserves covers token production, though neither piece matches the efficiency of having both stapled to a single two-mana permanent.
Price Context
Current price
$24.84 premium tier
At $24.84, Cecily, Haunted Mage sits firmly in the premium tier for a tribal payoff — steep for a card that does nothing outside a dedicated Spirit deck. The price is defensible if you're building around the tribe, but it's a hard sell as a casual include.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.