Izzet Staticaster
Creature — Human Wizard
Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
Haste
: This creature deals 1 damage to target creature and each other creature with the same name as that creature.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- RU
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Return to Ravnica
- Price
- $0.31
- EDHREC rank
- #16018
Izzet Staticaster enters with haste, pings a target for 1 damage immediately, and can repeat that ping every turn at instant speed — all for three mana. The catch is that the damage ceiling of 1 per activation means it's only ever a token sweeper or a slow clock against x/1 creatures, not a real threat answer.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Izzet Staticaster earns its slot as a persistent answer to token swarms and x/1 utility creatures — the kind of incidental hate that taxes aristocrats and elf-ball strategies all game. In Legacy and Vintage, the card is legal but never sees play; the format's threats laugh at 1 damage, and three mana for a fragile creature that can't kill anything relevant is not a transaction those formats accept. Modern and Pioneer are similarly hostile — go-wide creature decks have plenty of 1-toughness targets in theory, but faster and more efficient sweepers make Staticaster redundant before it can generate meaningful value. The real home has always been Commander, where slower game speeds let it activate multiple times and the density of token generators makes the 1-damage ceiling matter.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.31 bulk tier
At $0.31, Izzet Staticaster is deep bulk — a card you pick out of a commons box or add to any order as a throwaway inclusion. Bulk rares rarely appreciate unless they get a spike in a competitive format, and with Staticaster locked into Commander niche play, that price is likely to stay exactly where it is.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.