Graceful Adept
Creature — Human Wizard
You have no maximum hand size.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Champions of Kamigawa
- Price
- $0.48
- EDHREC rank
- #14649
Graceful Adept removes your maximum hand size entirely — not a temporary effect, a permanent on-board rule change for as long as it stays in play. The cost is a 1/3 Wizard body at three mana, which means Azami, Lady of Scrolls can tap it for cards, partially justifying the slot on its own.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Azami, Lady of Scrolls
Azami, Lady of Scrolls taps any Wizard for a card, so Graceful Adept earns its seat twice over — it stockpiles the hand you're drawing into while Azami's engine keeps filling it.
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 |
Graceful Adept is a Commander card, full stop. In a format where you're drawing eight cards off a Rhystic Study or refilling with Consecrated Sphinx, the no-maximum-hand-size effect is genuinely useful rather than cosmetic. In Legacy and Vintage, Graceful Adept is too slow and too fragile — Leyline of Singularity or a simple Reliquary Tower effect covers the same need for less cost, and a 1/3 body accomplishes nothing in those formats. Oathbreaker functions enough like Commander that the same logic applies: if your game plan generates surplus cards, Graceful Adept is a reasonable three-drop to protect that surplus.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.48 bulk tier
At $0.48, Graceful Adept is deep bulk — you're not paying for the effect, you're paying for the shipping. It holds that floor comfortably; there's no version of this card that becomes expensive.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.