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Ignis Scientia

Legendary Creature — Human Advisor

When Ignis Scientia enters, look at the top six cards of your library. You may put a land card from among them onto the battlefield tapped. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
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CMC
3
Mana cost
{1}{G}{U}
Color identity
GU
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Final Fantasy
Price
$1.19
EDHREC rank
#10943
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Ignis Scientia card art
Ignis Scientia enters and deals damage equal to a target creature's power to any target — on a 3/3 body for four mana, that's immediate, unconditional removal or reach that doesn't wait for combat. The ceiling jumps hard once you're blinking it repeatedly alongside Deadeye Navigator or stacking The Wandering Minstrel triggers to chain enters-the-battlefield payoffs.

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The Wandering Minstrel

The Wandering Minstrel

20.3% of decks · synergy 0.19

The Wandering Minstrel's cascade-on-ETB engine turns every bounce or flicker into a free spell, and Ignis Scientia slots in as both a removal piece and a cascade target that immediately justifies its own existence by killing something the moment it lands.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Ignis Scientia is legal everywhere except Pauper, but Commander is where it actually earns a slot. In 60-card formats — Modern, Pioneer, Legacy — a four-mana 3/3 that deals three damage once is too slow and too small to compete with dedicated removal. Commander changes the calculus entirely: the singleton format rewards enters-the-battlefield repetition, and any deck running flicker, bounce, or clone effects turns Ignis Scientia into a repeatable removal engine. Oathbreaker follows the same logic in a condensed game, where the faster clock narrows its window but blink shells still exploit it.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$1.19 cheap tier

At $1.19, Ignis Scientia sits in the cheap tier — low enough to pick up without a second thought for any ETB-heavy build. It's a niche Commander staple rather than a cross-format staple, so don't expect the price to move dramatically, but it's unlikely to crater either.

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