Crosis's Charm
Instant
Choose one —
• Return target permanent to its owner's hand.
• Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.
• Destroy target artifact.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BRU
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- World Championship Decks 2001
- Price
- $0.80
- EDHREC rank
- #8657
Crosis's Charm offers three genuinely useful modes — bounce a permanent, destroy a nonblack creature, or make an opponent discard three — on one card at instant speed for three mana. That flexibility is real, but three mana for a single effect is slow enough that Crosis's Charm earns its slot only in decks that heavily reward spell-casting triggers, like Jeleva, Nephalia's Scourge, rather than as a generic utility piece.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Jeleva, Nephalia's Scourge
Jeleva, Nephalia's Scourge exiles instants and sorceries from opponents' libraries to cast for free, and Crosis's Charm is exactly the kind of high-flexibility instant she wants to hit — any mode is live at instant speed, which means a free cast is never a blank.
Cormela, Glamour Thief
Cormela, Glamour Thief returns an instant or sorcery from the graveyard when she dies, making Crosis's Charm a recurrable toolbox piece — bounce the blocker, strip the threat, or strip a hand, whichever the moment demands.
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 |
Crosis's Charm is Commander's bread and butter: a three-color identity card that trades raw efficiency for modal flexibility, which is exactly the bargain multiplayer rewards. The bounce mode handles indestructible permanents and commanders about to die, the creature removal hits the table's green stompy threat, and the three-card discard is a meaningful haymaker against a single opponent who's pulling ahead. In Legacy and Vintage, where one mana often determines tempo games, Crosis's Charm is too slow to see real play — the formats have narrower, cheaper answers for each mode. Commander is where it lives, and specifically in Grixis shells that need a single card to answer wildly different board states.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.80 bulk tier
At $0.80, Crosis's Charm sits firmly in bulk territory — low enough that the ask is almost zero for any Grixis deck that wants it. Bulk charms rarely spike without a reprint or a breakout commander pushing demand, so expect the price to stay flat.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.