Dina's Guidance
Instant
Search your library for a creature card, reveal it, put it into your hand or graveyard, then shuffle.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BG
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Secrets of Strixhaven Promos
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #10517
Dina's Guidance tutors a card directly onto the battlefield — that's the headline, and the cost is what you pay to get there. In a format where value engines live and die by consistency, this effect on a card named after a drain-and-gain commander is exactly as focused as it sounds; Blech, Loafing Pest decks are already running it in roughly one in five lists.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Blech, Loafing Pest
Blech, Loafing Pest's engine revolves around life-payment triggers and getting specific payoffs into play at the right moment, and Dina's Guidance does exactly that tutoring job — putting the missing piece directly onto the battlefield rather than leaving it stranded in hand or library.
The Beamtown Bullies
The Beamtown Bullies wants specific high-impact creatures available at instant speed for its political discard plan, and Dina's Guidance gives that deck a way to set up the right threat on demand without telegraphing it through a hand reveal.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Dina's Guidance is legal across every major Constructed format — Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Standard, Vintage, and Oathbreaker — though its home is clearly Commander, where singleton construction makes tutors disproportionately powerful and getting the exact piece you need is worth a card and some mana. In 60-card formats, direct-to-battlefield tutors compete against a dense field of more efficient options, and Dina's Guidance hasn't broken through into those metagames. Commander is where the math works: one copy of every answer means one card that finds any answer is worth its slot, and Dina's Guidance fits that logic cleanly.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data for Dina's Guidance isn't currently available, so check Scryfall or your preferred retailer for the current market rate before picking up copies. Given its ~21% inclusion rate in Blech, Loafing Pest decks and niche appeal elsewhere, it's likely positioned as a casual staple rather than a chase rare.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Blech, Loafing Pest
- The Beamtown Bullies
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.