Grixis Illusionist
Creature — Human Wizard
: Target land you control becomes the basic land type of your choice until end of turn.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Conspiracy
- Price
- $0.09
- EDHREC rank
- #27277
Grixis Illusionist is a one-mana 1/1 that temporarily swaps a land's basic land types until end of turn — a narrow, situational effect that rarely changes a game's outcome. Unless you're engineering specific interactions around land typing, there are better one-drops at every table.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Grixis Illusionist sees essentially no competitive play across any format it's legal in. In Commander, the land-type-swapping effect occasionally enables niche interactions — triggering landfall off non-basic lands that briefly become basics, or fueling Sunbaked Canyon-style activations — but the effect expires at end of turn, making it unreliable as a build-around. In Pauper, Legacy, and Vintage, a 1/1 with no immediate board impact and a conditional tap ability simply doesn't meet the power bar. This is a card that finds a home in exactly one Commander deck that was built specifically to abuse it, and nowhere else.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.09 bulk tier
At $0.09, Grixis Illusionist is deep bulk — the kind of card that costs more to ship than it does to buy. That price reflects real demand, which is nearly zero, and it won't climb without a dedicated combo deck pushing it into the spotlight.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.