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Inga and Esika

Legendary Creature — Human God

Creatures you control have vigilance and "{T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell."
Whenever you cast a creature spell, if three or more mana from creatures was spent to cast it, draw a card.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{2}{G}{U}
Color identity
GU
Rarity
rare
Set
March of the Machine
Price
$1.70
EDHREC rank
#2330
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Inga and Esika card art
Inga and Esika enters with three 1/1 Humans, draws you three cards when those creatures die, and replenishes your mana — all on a single five-mana legendary that functions as its own value engine the turn it lands. The cost is a body that trades freely with anything and a draw trigger that requires patience rather than instant gratification. Pestered Wellguard this is not — Inga and Esika demands a deck built to cash in those tokens quickly, but when it does, the card advantage is real and immediate.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01

Peter Parker

54.6% of decks · synergy 0.48

Peter Parker's ability to web up and sacrifice creatures on demand means the three Human tokens Inga and Esika provides convert into card draw almost immediately, making Inga and Esika one of the most consistent draw engines in that shell.

02
Helga, Skittish Seer

Helga, Skittish Seer

51.9% of decks · synergy 0.45

Helga, Skittish Seer cares about creatures dying to fuel her scry-and-draw triggers, so the three token deaths Inga and Esika sets up chain directly into Helga's engine for a compounding advantage loop.

03
Jodah, the Unifier

Jodah, the Unifier

26.7% of decks · synergy 0.23

Inga and Esika is a five-color legendary, which means Jodah, the Unifier cascades into it and counts it as a legendary spell for his triggered ability — pure free value in a deck already stacking legendary payoffs.

04
Aragorn, the Uniter

Aragorn, the Uniter

29.7% of decks · synergy 0.19

Aragorn, the Uniter triggers off multicolored spells, and Inga and Esika is exactly that, netting an immediate Aragorn trigger while also flooding the board with tokens that pressure opponents or feed sacrifice synergies.

05
Surrak Dragonclaw

Surrak Dragonclaw

18.6% of decks · synergy 0.17

Surrak Dragonclaw grants creatures uncounterability and incentivizes a creature-heavy, Temur-value gameplan where Inga and Esika's token production and built-in draw refuel the hand after aggressive sequences.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where Inga and Esika earns its keep — the three-token entry and death-triggered draw are slow enough that one-on-one formats would punish the setup time, but multiplayer games give those Humans the chance to trade into blockers or sacrifice outlets before opponents stabilize. In Legacy and Vintage, it's legal but irrelevant; five mana for a value creature with no immediate board impact doesn't survive those environments. Modern and Pioneer are theoretically accessible, but the same problem applies — Inga and Esika is a Commander card through and through, built for the longer arc of a 100-card singleton game where card advantage compounds over multiple turns.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

28 decks
Pestered WellguardIntruder AlarmInga and Esika

Pestered WellguardIntruder AlarmInga and Esika

Infinite colored mana that can only be spent to cast creature spells; Infinite creature tokens; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce; Infinite untap of creatures; Infinite untap of creatures you control; Infinite ETB

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Price Context

Current price

$1.70 cheap tier

At $1.70, Inga and Esika sits in the budget-staple tier — cheap enough to slot into any deck that wants it without deliberation. Given its role as a consistent draw engine in multiple popular archetypes, that price is unlikely to erode further.

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