Join the Maestros
Sorcery
Casualty 2 (As you cast this spell, you may sacrifice a creature with power 2 or greater. When you do, copy this spell.)
Create a 4/3 black Ogre Warrior creature token.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Streets of New Capenna
- Price
- $0.04
- EDHREC rank
- #24999
Join the Maestros puts a 4/3 token on the board and kills a creature or planeswalker — that's two cards of work for three mana. The casualty clause means you're paying extra in creature resources, but in any black deck already running sacrifice synergies, that cost is a feature, not a drawback.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Join the Maestros is a solid role-player in sacrifice-matters decks, specifically those running black — it removes a threat and generates a body simultaneously, which is exactly the kind of two-for-one efficiency that keeps you from falling behind on board. Outside Commander, it sees essentially no play in Legacy, Modern, or Pioneer, where sorcery-speed removal that requires a sacrifice upside doesn't compete with the format staples available. Pauper is the one non-Commander format where it's technically legal, but a three-mana sorcery asking you to sacrifice a creature to get a 4/3 and kill something is too clunky against the format's pace. Stick to Commander, and even there, limit it to decks that actively want to sacrifice creatures rather than treating it as generic removal.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.04 bulk tier
At $0.04, Join the Maestros is pure bulk — the kind of card you pull from a draft chaff box rather than buy. That price won't move; it's a Limited card that found a niche in casual Commander, and supply from New Capenna drafts keeps it firmly in the floor tier.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.