Madcap Skills
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +3/+0 and has menace.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Modern Masters 2017
- Price
- $0.21
- EDHREC rank
- #11996
Madcap Skills turns any unblockable or evasive threat into a one-hit clock — +2/+0 and can't be blocked by more than one creature is a brutal combination on a body opponents can't gang up on. The cost is real: it's an aura, so a removal spell on the enchanted creature leaves you two-for-oned, which means you need a target resilient enough to survive the attempt.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Slicer, Hired Muscle
Slicer, Hired Muscle already forces opponents to attack each other and can't be blocked by more than one creature on the turn it swings at you — Madcap Skills stacks a second evasion layer on top and pumps the damage high enough that a single uncontested hit threatens elimination.
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, Madcap Skills is a role-player in voltron builds — cheap to cast, immediate on-board impact, and punishing on commanders with built-in evasion or indestructibility. Pauper is its most competitive home, where the card sees real play in aggressive red strategies that can threaten lethal in the early turns. In Modern and Pioneer, it's too slow and too fragile against the removal density those formats demand; the two-for-one risk is simply too high when opponents are holding Fatal Push. Legacy has no interest — the power ceiling there dwarfs what Madcap Skills offers.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.21 bulk tier
At $0.21, Madcap Skills is pure bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not scarcity. That price is stable by nature; there's no spike trigger on the horizon for a common aura with a narrow competitive profile.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Slicer, Hired Muscle
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.