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Council of the Absolute

Creature — Human Advisor

As this creature enters, choose a noncreature, nonland card name.
Your opponents can't cast spells with the chosen name.
Spells with the chosen name you cast cost {2} less to cast.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{2}{W}{U}
Color identity
UW
Rarity
mythic
Set
Dragon's Maze
Price
$0.30
EDHREC rank
#23622
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Council of the Absolute card art
Council of the Absolute locks down one noncreature spell for the rest of the game and taxes your opponents two mana every time they try to cast it — that's a permanent, one-sided Nevermore stapled to a body that also names something like Sensei's Divining Top to double as a protection piece. The cost is that you have to name the card on cast, so it rewards knowing your table.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where Council of the Absolute does its best work — naming a combo piece, a problematic draw engine, or a staple removal spell at your specific table is a meaningful political and strategic lever, and the 2/4 body survives most incidental damage. In Legacy and Vintage, the card is legal but too slow and too narrow; the formats move fast enough that a four-mana creature that blanks one spell rarely stabilizes a game. Modern and Pioneer are similarly hostile — removal is cheap and the effect doesn't close games. Council of the Absolute is a Commander card through and through.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.30 bulk tier

At $0.30, Council of the Absolute sits firmly in bulk territory, which is surprising given how much text it puts on the stack for four mana. The price is unlikely to climb — it sees narrow play and has been printed multiple times — but the entry cost is low enough that sleeving one up for the right deck is a no-brainer.

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