Jester's Mask
Artifact
This artifact enters tapped.
, 
, Sacrifice this artifact: Target opponent puts the cards from their hand on top of their library. Search that player's library for that many cards. That player puts those cards into their hand, then shuffles.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Ice Age
- Price
- $5.25
- EDHREC rank
- #20216
Jester's Mask lets you swap an opponent's hand for the worst seven cards in their library — a targeted, repeatable hand-disruption effect that can functionally lock a single player out of a game plan. The catch is the equip-like setup cost: you spend a turn playing it, then another activating it, all telegraphed in advance.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Jester's Mask does its best work — three or four opponents means you can rotate activations, perpetually crippling one player while the others stay focused on the board. In 1-v-1 Legacy and Vintage it's too slow; paying two mana and then two more mana across separate turns to disrupt a single opponent's hand is a losing tempo proposition against formats built on fast interaction and cantrips. Oathbreaker is a closer call than Vintage, but the same speed problem applies. Jester's Mask is a Commander card through and through.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
Plagiarize and Mindshrieker put pressure on libraries or hands at lower cost, but neither replicates the surgical hand-replacement Jester's Mask provides. Telemin Performance and Dauthi Voidwalker get closer to the "strand them on useless cards" angle at a fraction of the price, though both are one-shot or conditional rather than repeatable.
Price Context
Current price
$5.25 mid tier
At $5.25, Jester's Mask sits in the mid tier — affordable enough that the price isn't the reason to skip it, but niche enough that demand has never pushed it higher. It's a Reserved List card, so supply is fixed; the price is stable rather than climbing, and you're buying it for the effect, not the trajectory.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.