Enlightened Maniac
Creature — Human
When this creature enters, create a 3/2 colorless Eldrazi Horror creature token.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $0.04
- EDHREC rank
- #26691
Enlightened Maniac enters and immediately creates a 3/2 token — two bodies for one card is the whole pitch. The cost is that both creatures are vanilla and neither does anything beyond occupying the board, so you need a deck that converts raw bodies into value.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Enlightened Maniac is a Commander card at heart — token-doubling effects, sacrifice synergies, and enters-the-battlefield payoffs are everywhere in the format, and two bodies from one card slot compounds quickly. In Pauper it's legal and the token density is real, but a 3/2 token at four mana competes poorly against the format's efficient threats. Legacy, Vintage, and Modern have no meaningful shell for it — the rate is too slow and the bodies too small to matter. Oathbreaker mirrors Commander closely enough that the same go-wide and sacrifice strategies apply.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.04 bulk tier
At $0.04, Enlightened Maniac is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard and shipping, not the card. That price is stable by definition: there's no demand driver that would move a vanilla two-body common, so pick it up in any lot and don't think about it again.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.