Mageta the Lion
Legendary Creature — Human Spellshaper
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, Discard two cards: Destroy all creatures except for Mageta. Those creatures can't be regenerated.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Prophecy
- Price
- $1.01
- EDHREC rank
- #20534
Mageta the Lion is a repeatable one-sided board wipe stapled to a 3/3 body — the effect is devastating, and the activation cost is brutal: five mana plus discarding two cards. In decks built to refill their hand or discard for profit, that cost becomes trivial; everywhere else, it's a steep tax on an already slow engine.
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 |
Commander is the natural home for Mageta the Lion — five-mana activations are slower in 1v1 formats, but in a four-player pod, a repeatable board wipe that leaves your own creatures alive closes games. Legacy and Vintage are legal but uninterested: the five-mana activation is uncompetitive in formats where the game ends on turn two or three. Oathbreaker is viable if Mageta the Lion is your signature spell target, though using it as the planeswalker-paired spell is an unusual shell. Mageta the Lion is locked out of Modern, Pioneer, Standard, and Pauper entirely.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$1.01 cheap tier
At $1.01, Mageta the Lion sits in impulse-buy territory — a powerful effect at near-bulk pricing. Demand is narrow enough that the price is unlikely to spike, but at this cost there's no reason to leave it out of white-based Commander decks that can feed the activation.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.