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Illicit Masquerade

Enchantment

Flash
When this enchantment enters, put an impostor counter on each creature you control.
Whenever a creature you control with an impostor counter on it dies, exile it. Return up to one other target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{3}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
rare
Set
Murders at Karlov Manor
Price
$0.22
EDHREC rank
#13022
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Illicit Masquerade card art
Illicit Masquerade lets every creature on the board swap power and toughness until end of turn — a board-wide Invert stapled to a cantrip for two mana. In decks like Skullbriar, the Walking Grave that want to flip a lethal attacker's stats or dome blockers into the ground, that draw clause makes the cost negligible.

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

Illicit Masquerade is a Commander card through and through — the cantrip keeps it from being a dead draw, and the board-wide effect scales with creature counts in ways that one-on-one formats rarely reward. In 60-card competitive formats like Modern and Legacy, a two-mana sorcery that doesn't generate a permanent or close out the game on its own isn't pulling weight, and it won't make those lists. Standard and Pioneer are theoretically open but the same logic applies: there are better ways to spend two mana. Commander is where Illicit Masquerade belongs, specifically in decks that can exploit the stat swap offensively or use it as a combat trick at sorcery speed.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.22 bulk tier

At $0.22, Illicit Masquerade is bulk — easy to pick up as a throw-in or from a bulk box without thinking about it. It's too niche to expect meaningful price growth, but at this tier you're not buying it for value anyway.

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