Dreamborn Muse
Creature — Spirit
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player mills X cards, where X is the number of cards in their hand.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Commander 2011
- Price
- $4.37
- EDHREC rank
- #7214
Dreamborn Muse mills every player for the number of cards in their hand at each upkeep — a relentless, symmetrical clock that snowballs fast in multiplayer. The catch is symmetry: without ways to keep your own hand empty or double opponents' mill, Bruvac the Grandiloquent turns it asymmetric and brutal.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Bruvac the Grandiloquent
Bruvac the Grandiloquent doubles every mill trigger, so Dreamborn Muse's upkeep ability hits opponents for twice their hand size — a hand of seven becomes fourteen cards milled before they even draw.
The Mindskinner
The Mindskinner cares about opponents losing life from mill, and Dreamborn Muse provides a repeating, hand-size-scaled trigger every upkeep that feeds that damage engine without needing any other setup.
The Master, Transcendent
The Master, Transcendent creates Dalek tokens that benefit from opponents having cards milled into their graveyards, and Dreamborn Muse steadily stocks those graveyards every turn cycle.
Lazav, Dimir Mastermind
Lazav, Dimir Mastermind copies any creature milled into an opponent's graveyard, and Dreamborn Muse's upkeep trigger consistently stocks those graveyards with targets for Lazav to impersonate.
Phenax, God of Deception
Phenax, God of Deception already wants creatures with high toughness tapping to mill, and Dreamborn Muse adds a free, unconditional mill trigger each upkeep that doesn't require tapping anything.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is the correct home for Dreamborn Muse — three opponents means three upkeep triggers, and large hands in the early game translate to massive mill totals before anyone stabilizes. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but unplayed; four mana for a symmetrical mill effect that requires opponents to hold cards is far too slow and conditional against the interaction density of those formats. Modern has faster and more consistent mill payoffs that don't give the table time to react. Dreamborn Muse is a Commander card through and through: the multiplayer math is where it earns its slot.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$4.37 cheap tier
At $4.37, Dreamborn Muse sits at a reasonable price for a niche Commander staple with a devoted audience in mill and self-mill builds. It sees enough play across Bruvac, Phenax, and graveyard-value commanders to hold that floor, but it's not climbing — it's a role-player, not a format staple.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.