Jester's Scepter
Artifact
When this artifact enters, exile the top five cards of target player's library face down. You may look at those cards for as long as they remain exiled.
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, Put a card exiled with this artifact into its owner's graveyard: Counter target spell if it has the same name as that card.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Coldsnap
- Price
- $0.36
- EDHREC rank
- #27771
Jester's Scepter lets you exile cards from the top of any library face-down, then threaten to name one and force a discard — repeated hand disruption stapled to a permanent for three mana. The setup cost and activation price make it slow, but in dedicated mill or group-slug shells, the recursive pressure is real.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Jester's Scepter sees essentially zero play in Legacy or Vintage, where dedicated discard and disruption packages are faster and more consistent. In Commander it occupies a narrow niche: pillow-fort and group-slug decks that want incremental pressure on multiple opponents' hands, and mill strategies that treat the exiled cards as a secondary resource. The activated ability's cost — two mana and a tap — is steep in a format where opponents have 40 life and seven-card starting hands, so Jester's Scepter rewards decks that can generate mana advantages or untap it repeatedly. Oathbreaker is a theoretically tighter environment where hand disruption lands harder, but the card still competes with cheaper options.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.36 bulk tier
At $0.36, Jester's Scepter is deep bulk — easy to pick up without a second thought. Demand is low enough that the price is unlikely to move unless a commander printing pushes dedicated hand-disruption archetypes into the spotlight.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.