Djinn of Wishes
Creature — Djinn
Flying
This creature enters with three wish counters on it., Remove a wish counter from this creature: Reveal the top card of your library. You may play that card without paying its mana cost. If you don't, exile it.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Core Set 2019 Promos
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #17880
Djinn of Wishes lands as a 4/4 flier with three wish counters, each one letting you cast the top card of your library for free — that's up to three spells of any size with zero mana investment beyond the initial five. The ceiling is enormous, but the floor drops fast if your top three cards are lands or misses you can't use.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Djinn of Wishes does its best work — the singleton format rewards the explosive variance of blind-casting your topdeck, and five mana for a repeatable free-spell engine fits comfortably in midrange and top-heavy lists. Commanders that manipulate the top of the library (Sensei's Divining Top effects, scry, or explicit topdeck tutoring) turn Djinn from a coin flip into a reliable threat. In Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer it's too slow and too fragile — five mana for an effect that better decks replicate more consistently or simply ignore as a wincon. Oathbreaker can make use of it in the right shell, but the format's tighter game length means you rarely fire all three counters.
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Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data isn't currently available for Djinn of Wishes, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the latest. Historically it's sat in the bulk-rare range, making it an easy pickup if the top-of-library synergy fits your build.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.