Information Dealer
Creature — Human Wizard
: Look at the top X cards of your library, where X is the number of Wizards on the battlefield, then put them back in any order.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Onslaught
- Price
- $0.24
- EDHREC rank
- #17864
Information Dealer lets you top-deck sculpt every turn for the low cost of tapping a Wizard — and in a format full of Wizards, that cost is nearly free. In Azami, Lady of Scrolls builds especially, it doubles as a draw outlet the moment Azami hits the table.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Azami, Lady of Scrolls
Azami, Lady of Scrolls taps Wizards to draw cards, and Information Dealer is a Wizard that wants to be tapped — the two form a self-reinforcing engine where every turn you both sculpt the top of your library and convert that knowledge into raw cards.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Information Dealer is a Commander card through and through — the Wizard tribal density required to make free topdeck manipulation worth a card slot exists almost nowhere else. In Pauper it's legal but competes with more proactive commons and rarely makes the cut outside dedicated Wizard brews. Legacy and Vintage have access to far more broken library manipulation, so Information Dealer doesn't register. Commander is where the card lives: redundant Wizards are plentiful, games go long enough for incremental topdeck control to compound, and the political value of knowing exactly what's coming is real.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.24 bulk tier
At $0.24, Information Dealer is deep bulk — you're paying almost nothing for a niche role-player that over-delivers in the right shell. Bulk rares don't appreciate, but this one doesn't need to; at that price, slotting it into any Wizard-heavy Commander deck is a no-brainer.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.