Glittering Wish
Sorcery
You may reveal a multicolored card you own from outside the game and put it into your hand. Exile Glittering Wish.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GW
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Future Sight
- Price
- $0.59
- EDHREC rank
- #28131
Glittering Wish fetches any multicolored card from outside the game — a silver-bullet tutor that converts your sideboard into a toolbox of answers, finishers, or combo pieces on demand. Two mana is a fair rate for unconditional access to any gold card you chose to register, and in formats where you can stack that sideboard with purpose, the card is simply excellent.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Glittering Wish is narrowly useful — the singleton rule means your 'outside the game' is just your sideboard, which most playgroups don't use, so most tables treat it as a dead card. Legacy and Vintage are where Glittering Wish has historically earned respect, giving combo decks a two-mana line to specific gold pieces like Auriok Salvagers or Bring to Light targets without running extra copies. Modern sees fringe play in Niv-Mizzet Reborn and five-color toolbox shells where the sideboard can be engineered to hold one-ofs that the wish fetches at instant speed during a combo turn. Oathbreaker restores some Commander-adjacent relevance since that format does use a sideboard, but the card's ceiling there depends entirely on how deliberately you build around it.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.59 bulk tier
At $0.59, Glittering Wish sits firmly in bulk territory despite being a unique effect with no direct reprint equivalent in the same functional slot. The price reflects its narrow format legality and conditional playability rather than any ceiling on its power — in a deck built to exploit it, it punches well above its cost.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.