Fortune's Favor
Instant
Target opponent looks at the top four cards of your library and separates them into a face-down pile and a face-up pile. Put one pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Friday Night Magic 2017
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #14401
Fortune's Favor gives you four cards of selection for four mana — an opponent chooses which two you keep, but on an instant, in blue, that split is rarely as punishing as it sounds. Outside of dedicated shell decks like The Celestial Toymaker where the opponent's choice is the entire point, it's a serviceable but replaceable dig spell.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
The Celestial Toymaker
The Celestial Toymaker turns the opponent's choice into a weapon — Fortune's Favor is one of the cleanest enablers in the deck because forcing an opponent to put two cards in your graveyard is exactly the kind of asymmetric decision the commander rewards.
Zevlor, Elturel Exile
Zevlor, Elturel Exile can copy Fortune's Favor and aim it at multiple opponents, which multiplies both the card selection and the political pressure of making several players decide what you keep.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Fortune's Favor fills a role somewhere between bulk cantrip and genuine value piece depending entirely on your commander — in The Celestial Toymaker it's a staple; everywhere else it competes with Fact or Fiction and Frantic Search for the same slot. In Legacy and Vintage the four-mana cost is a near-disqualifying bar when faster blue draw exists at one or two mana. Modern and Pioneer have similarly left it behind, where efficient card selection has only gotten cheaper and Fortune's Favor's opponent-choice clause rarely generates enough upside to justify the cost. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander format where niche synergy commanders might give it a home, but those builds are narrow.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Price data for Fortune's Favor isn't available in the current index, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for a live number. Given its narrow competitive applications, it tends to sit in bulk-rare territory — pick it up without hesitation if you're building The Celestial Toymaker.
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Sources
Mentioned
- The Celestial Toymaker
- Zevlor, Elturel Exile
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.