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Magar of the Magic Strings

Legendary Creature — Minotaur Performer

{1}{B}{R}: Note the name of target instant or sorcery card in your graveyard and put it onto the battlefield face down. It's a 3/3 creature with "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may create a copy of the card with the noted name. You may cast the copy without paying its mana cost" and "If this creature would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else."

CMC
3
Mana cost
{1}{B}{R}
Color identity
BR
Rarity
mythic
Set
Unfinity
Price
$0.59
EDHREC rank
#11009
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Magar of the Magic Strings card art
Magar of the Magic Strings turns any instant or sorcery in your hand into a repeatable creature that casts that spell for free every time it deals combat damage — the upside on something like Savage Beating is enormous. The cost is real: you're paying three mana and discarding the spell to make a 3/3, and the whole plan falls apart if Magar eats a blocker before it connects.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Sethron, Hurloon General

Sethron, Hurloon General

22.8% of decks · synergy 0.22

Sethron, Hurloon General floods the board with Minotaurs whenever a nontoken Minotaur enters, and Magar of the Magic Strings is a Minotaur that can repeatedly cast combat tricks or anthems for free — Sethron triggers on Magar's entry, then Magar snowballs the advantage every time it swings through.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Magar of the Magic Strings actually lives — the singleton format rewards the kind of high-impact, one-of instants and sorceries that Magar converts into threatening creatures, and a 60-card format rarely has the patience for a five-mana 3/3 with a conditional trigger. Legacy and Vintage are both legal homes on paper, but neither wants a slow enchantment-creature hybrid when faster, more consistent engines exist. Oathbreaker is a legitimate fringe option if you're building around a spellslinger signature spell, though Magar's ceiling there depends entirely on what you're encoding.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

2,900 decks
Magar of the Magic StringsSavage Beating

Magar of the Magic StringsSavage Beating

Infinite combat damage; Infinite combat phases; Infinite magecraft triggers; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce; Infinite storm count; Infinite untap of creatures you control

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152 decks
Magar of the Magic StringsBrass's BountyAggravated Assault

Magar of the Magic StringsBrass's BountyAggravated Assault

Infinite colored mana; Infinite combat damage; Infinite combat phases; Infinite magecraft triggers; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce; Infinite storm count; Infinite Treasure tokens; Infinite untap of creatures you control

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Price Context

Current price

$0.59 bulk tier

At $0.59, Magar of the Magic Strings sits firmly in bulk territory, and the price reflects its narrow application rather than any power ceiling — in the right Minotaur or spellslinger Commander build it punches well above that price tag. It's not going to spike, but it's also not going anywhere; pick it up whenever.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.