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Gustha's Scepter

Artifact

{T}: Exile a card from your hand face down. You may look at it for as long as it remains exiled.
{T}: Return a card you own exiled with this artifact to your hand.
When you lose control of this artifact, put all cards exiled with this artifact into their owner's graveyard.

CMC
0
Mana cost
{0}
Color identity
C
Rarity
rare
Set
Alliances
Price
$8.12
EDHREC rank
#12623
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Gustha's Scepter card art
Gustha's Scepter lets you exile cards from your hand and return them at will — a zero-mana-activation hand-protection engine that also enables blink and self-mill synergies. Commanders like Emry, Lurker of the Loch and Fblthp, Lost on the Range reach for it specifically because the exile-and-return loop is a repeatable trigger source, not just storage.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Fblthp, Lost on the Range

Fblthp, Lost on the Range

22.4% of decks · synergy 0.22

Fblthp, Lost on the Range draws a card whenever it's cast from exile, and Gustha's Scepter turns that into a repeatable loop — exile Fblthp with the Scepter, replay it, draw a card, repeat whenever you have the mana.

02
Flubs, the Fool

Flubs, the Fool

16.8% of decks · synergy 0.16

Flubs, the Fool cares about cards being exiled from your hand, and Gustha's Scepter is one of the cleanest engines for triggering that effect on demand at zero activation cost.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Gustha's Scepter sees essentially no competitive play in Legacy or Vintage — the effect is too slow and too narrow for formats where the baseline power level demands immediate impact. Commander is where it lives, specifically in decks that profit from repeatedly exiling their own cards or protecting key pieces from discard and hand-attack. The zero activation cost is the real draw; you can move cards in and out at instant speed for free, which matters in multiplayer games where Wheel effects and targeted discard are constant threats. Oathbreaker is a legal and occasionally relevant home if your planeswalker has hand-size or exile synergies, but the install base is small.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

Endless Scrivener and Conjurer's Bauble offer cheaper ways to protect single cards or loop draws, but neither replicates the open-ended multi-card exile vault that Gustha's Scepter provides. If the primary goal is shielding your hand from discard, Null Brooch or Teferi's Puzzle Box adjacents get the job done at lower cost — just know you're trading the exile-trigger angle entirely.

Price Context

Current price

$8.12 mid tier

At $8.12, Gustha's Scepter sits in mid-tier pricing for a card with a narrow but dedicated audience — it's not expensive enough to be a barrier, but it's not bulk either. Demand is driven almost entirely by Fblthp and Flubs builds, so the price is stable rather than climbing; it's a fair rate for what it does in those specific shells.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.