Edea, Possessed Sorceress

Legendary Creature — Human Warlock

Ward {2}
At the beginning of combat on your turn, gain control of target creature an opponent controls until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn.
Whenever a creature you control but don't own dies, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control and you draw a card.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{2}{U}{B}{R}
Color identity
BRU
Rarity
rare
Set
Final Fantasy Commander
Price
$9.37
EDHREC rank
#15311
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Edea, Possessed Sorceress card art
Edea, Possessed Sorceress copies every noncreature spell you cast for free, stacking triggers that snowball into lethal board states within a single turn — the ceiling is absurd. The cost is real: she demands an extra creature sacrifice each time, so she belongs in a deck that generates bodies for fuel, not one that already needs those creatures to survive, and she goes infinite with Breath of Fury the moment you have two attackers and an open combat.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander
legacy
modern
pioneer
standard
vintage
pauper
oathbreaker

Edea, Possessed Sorceress is a Commander card through and through — the sacrifice cost is a meaningful deck-building constraint that rewards the 99-card singleton format's ability to pack token generators and sacrifice synergies together. In Legacy and Vintage she's technically legal but has no competitive home; those formats have no interest in a five-mana legendary that asks you to build around her. Commander is the only format where her ceiling matters, and there she's a legitimate build-around in sacrifice-focused or token-heavy strategies.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

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Edea, Possessed SorceressBreath of Fury

Edea, Possessed SorceressBreath of Fury

Near-infinite death triggers; Near-infinite sacrifice triggers; Near-infinite combat damage; Near-infinite combat phases; Near-infinite ETB for target opponent; Infinite card draw; Near-infinite ETB; Infinite draw triggers; Near-infinite LTB

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Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

No single card replicates what Edea, Possessed Sorceress does, but Delina, Wild Mage offers a similar "copy your stuff for a cost" loop at a lower price point — her limitation is that she only copies creatures and requires combat, which narrows the shell considerably. If the appeal is purely the storm-adjacent copy-every-spell effect, Mirari fills that role for spells at a fraction of the price but demands mana rather than creature sacrifices, making it far less explosive in token-dense builds.

Price Context

Current price

$9.37 mid tier

At $9.37, Edea, Possessed Sorceress sits at the high end of mid-tier singles — you're paying for a card with a narrow but degenerate ceiling, and that price reflects genuine demand from dedicated sacrifice and token combo players. The value holds as long as she remains the only effect of her kind at this rate; a reprint in a Commander precon would drop her meaningfully.

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