Legacy's Allure
Enchantment
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a treasure counter on this enchantment.
Sacrifice this enchantment: Gain control of target creature with power less than or equal to the number of treasure counters on this enchantment. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Tempest Remastered
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #18609
Legacy's Allure trades a two-mana enchantment and some patience for a hard steal — activated at instant speed, with no upper limit on the creature it can take. The catch is the counter accumulation, which means it rewards early deployment and punishes late draws, but in the right deck it's one of the most efficient theft effects available at any price.
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 |
In Commander, Legacy's Allure is best understood as a slow-burn threat that punishes opponents who wait too long to remove it — drop it turn two, and by the mid-game you're threatening to take the most dangerous thing on the board. Legacy and Vintage are both legal formats for it, but neither has a compelling home: tempo and control shells in those formats have faster, more reliable disruption, and Legacy's Allure's counter dependency is poorly suited to the pace of those games. Commander is its true format, where the longer game gives the counters time to stack and where stealing a commander or a haymaker creature generates the kind of card-advantage swing that wins pods.
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Price Context
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Pricing data isn't available in the current feed for Legacy's Allure, so check Scryfall or your preferred vendor for a live number. Given its niche but genuine power in Commander, it tends to carry a modest premium over bulk — worth picking up if you're building a blue theft or counter-synergy list.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.