Exhibition Magician

Creature — Human Wizard

When this creature enters, choose one —
• Create a 1/1 green and white Citizen creature token.
• Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
common
Set
Streets of New Capenna
Price
$0.20
EDHREC rank
#15838
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Exhibition Magician card art
Exhibition Magician enters and creates a 1/1 Construct artifact token, then blinks itself — repeatable token generation on a single card. The engine costs six mana across two turns without help, but pair it with Deadeye Navigator and it becomes an unlimited token factory for two blue mana per loop.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander
legacy
modern
pioneer
standard
vintage
pauper
oathbreaker

Commander is the natural home for Exhibition Magician — the format's slower pace gives it time to set up, and the abundance of blink, flicker, and bounce effects means the self-blink trigger rarely fires in isolation. In Pauper it's a legitimate threat, since common-legal blink shells can abuse it without needing expensive enablers. Modern, Pioneer, and Legacy have enough efficient interaction that a six-mana setup piece rarely survives long enough to matter, so Exhibition Magician stays on the bench in those formats. It's technically legal in Vintage but the power ceiling there makes this a non-starter.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.20 bulk tier

At $0.20, Exhibition Magician is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not scarcity. The price reflects its narrow combo role rather than any widespread demand, and there's no meaningful floor to lose.

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