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Conjurer's Closet

Artifact

At the beginning of your end step, you may exile target creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under your control.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{5}
Color identity
C
Rarity
rare
Set
Commander 2013
Price
$5.67
EDHREC rank
#499
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Conjurer's Closet card art
Conjurer's Closet turns every end step into a free flicker, resetting enters-the-battlefield triggers on anything from Archaeomancer to Y'shtola Rhul without spending a single mana after it resolves. Five mana to set up is the real cost — it demands a slow-enough game to survive long enough to matter, but in the right shell it generates compounding value every single turn.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Y'shtola Rhul

Y'shtola Rhul

81.8% of decks · synergy 0.77

Y'shtola Rhul's ability triggers on entering the battlefield, so Conjurer's Closet converts that passive into a free activation each end step — it's the single most reliable way to chain her effect without casting spells.

05
Preston, the Vanisher

Preston, the Vanisher

63.1% of decks · synergy 0.57

Preston, the Vanisher creates tokens whenever other nontoken creatures enter the battlefield, so Conjurer's Closet produces a free token every end step just by flickering any creature you already control.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Conjurer's Closet is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it sees virtually no competitive play in Legacy, Modern, or Vintage — five mana for a do-nothing-until-next-turn artifact is too slow when those formats end games on turns three and four. Commander is the card's natural home: the format's slower pace lets the Closet survive long enough to generate the compounding value it promises, and 100-card singleton means ETB creatures are everywhere. Oathbreaker can support it in creature-heavy value shells, though the format's faster closing speed means you're taking a real risk.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

Thassa, Deep-Dwelling hits the same free-flicker-each-end-step effect for a similar price but requires blue and demands you control a devotion of three or more to its ability, which narrows the shells it fits. Erratic Portal is a sub-$1 option that bounces a creature back to hand rather than flickering it, losing the ETB trigger but buying protection and reusability at a fraction of the cost — the trade-off is you have to recast the creature, so it works better in decks with cheap, high-impact ETBs than in expensive-creature shells where Conjurer's Closet truly earns its five-mana price tag.

Price Context

Current price

$5.67 mid tier

At $5.67, Conjurer's Closet sits in the mid tier — affordable enough to slot into most budgets without hesitation, but not quite the bulk-rare it used to be given steady Commander demand. It's a safe pickup for any ETB-heavy build; the price reflects genuine play rate rather than speculation.

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