Frostpyre Arcanist
Creature — Giant Wizard
This spell costs 
less to cast if you control a Giant or a Wizard.
When this creature enters, search your library for an instant or sorcery card with the same name as a card in your graveyard, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Kaldheim
- Price
- $0.09
- EDHREC rank
- #28349
Frostpyre Arcanist lets you copy an instant or sorcery from your graveyard whenever you cast a spell that shares a type with it — repeatable recursion stapled to a body. The cost is that you need a critical mass of instants and sorceries to make the trigger reliable, so it earns its slot in dedicated spellslinger builds and quietly underperforms everywhere else.
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, Frostpyre Arcanist slots into any spellslinger or Izzet-style deck that wants to rebuy key instants and sorceries without dedicating card slots to pure recursion. Legacy and Vintage have faster, more broken things happening and no real interest in a three-mana 2/3, so it doesn't see play there. Modern and Pioneer are similarly indifferent — the payoff is too slow and the body too fragile for those formats' tempo demands. Commander is genuinely where Frostpyre Arcanist lives, pairing best with commanders that reward casting spells repeatedly or filling the graveyard with instants and sorceries to fuel the trigger.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.09 bulk tier
At $0.09, Frostpyre Arcanist is deep bulk — pick it up as a throw-in and don't think twice about the cost. Bulk rares with niche Commander homes rarely appreciate meaningfully, so treat this as a convenience include rather than a spec.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.