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Hermetic Study

Enchantment — Aura

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has "{T}: This creature deals 1 damage to any target."

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
common
Set
Urza's Saga
Price
$0.14
EDHREC rank
#16129
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Hermetic Study card art
Hermetic Study turns any creature into a repeatable, untap-trigger-fueled ping engine for a single blue mana — and in the right shell, one damage per untap is all you need to go infinite. Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator converts those pings into Treasure every time they hit an opponent, and Rona, Herald of Invasion turns her own untap trigger into card selection while Hermetic Study closes the loop on a kill condition.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Rona, Herald of Invasion

12.2% of decks · synergy 0.12

Rona, Herald of Invasion untaps whenever you cast a legendary spell, and Hermetic Study on Rona converts every one of those untap triggers into a direct damage tick — stack a tap-for-mana outlet alongside it and the engine becomes a mana-positive combo kill.

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 legal
oathbreaker legal

Hermetic Study is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker — and Commander is where it does its best work, slotting into any blue combo deck that generates untap triggers. In Pauper it's a real card too, pairing with pingers and untap synergies in tempo or combo shells where one mana for a repeatable damage source is efficient. Legacy and Vintage have more powerful options at the same mana cost, so Hermetic Study rarely sees those tables outside of dedicated combo builds chasing redundancy.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

36 decks
Bruce Banner // The Incredible HulkHermetic Study

Bruce Banner // The Incredible HulkHermetic Study

Infinite combat phases; Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature

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Price Context

Current price

$0.14 bulk tier

At $0.14, Hermetic Study is deep bulk — easy to pick up in any trade binder or cheapest-possible cart filler. Bulk enchantments with genuine combo applications tend to sit at this floor indefinitely, so there's no urgency and no risk either way.

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