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Font of Magic

Enchantment

Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast for each time you've cast a commander from the command zone this game.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{3}{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
mythic
Set
Battle for Baldur's Gate Promos
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#11702
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Font of Magic card art
Font of Magic cuts the mana cost of every instant and sorcery you cast by one for each Legendary creature you control — in the right shell, that's a near-permanent cost reducer that turns three-mana spells into free ones. Ashling's Command and Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy // Scion of Halaster exemplify exactly who wants it: decks that chain instants and sorceries and can reliably field two or three legends at once.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Gale, Waterdeep ProdigyScion of Halaster

Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy // Scion of Halaster

23.5% of decks · synergy 0.23

Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy // Scion of Halaster is the premier Font of Magic home because Gale himself counts toward the discount while his ability recurs the instants and sorceries you're discounting, creating a self-reinforcing loop where Font of Magic makes the spells cheaper and Gale keeps refilling them.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Font of Magic is a Commander card through and through — the Legendary density needed to make it tick is almost impossible to sustain in Legacy or Vintage, where creature-light spell decks have no interest in a five-mana enchantment that requires board presence to function. In Commander, the Legendary supertype is everywhere: your commander alone gives you the first pip, and most midrange or spellslinger builds field two or three legends by turn six without trying. Oathbreaker is technically legal and the two-planeswalker-plus-signature-spell structure guarantees you start with legends in play, but the format's faster pace and lower land counts make the five-mana entry feel steep. Realistically, Font of Magic lives and dies in Commander, where the long game rewards static cost reduction and legend-heavy strategies are a format staple.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

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Ashling's CommandReiterateFont of Magic

Ashling's CommandReiterateFont of Magic

Infinite ETB; Infinite storm count; Infinite creature tokens; Infinite magecraft triggers; Infinite card draw for any number of players; Infinite draw triggers for any number of players; Infinite token copies of Elementals you control

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Price Context

Current price

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Pricing data for Font of Magic isn't currently available in our index, so check Scryfall or your preferred retailer for the latest figure. Given its niche demand — strong in dedicated legend-heavy spellslinger builds but largely ignored elsewhere — it has historically sat in the low-to-mid single-dollar range and is worth picking up if you're building around the effect.

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