Magus of the Balance
Creature — Human Wizard
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, Sacrifice this creature: Each player chooses a number of lands they control equal to the number of lands controlled by the player who controls the fewest, then sacrifices the rest. Players discard cards and sacrifice creatures the same way.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate
- Price
- $0.27
- EDHREC rank
- #17851
Magus of the Balance hits the table and immediately threatens to erase every permanent type a player over-committed to, equalizing lands, artifacts, creatures, and enchantments across the board in one sorcery-speed swing. The cost is real — a 2/2 body sits in play for a full turn before you can activate it, telegraphing the effect and giving opponents time to respond.
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 where Magus of the Balance does its best work, slotting into white stax and land-disruption shells that want to punish the player who ramped hardest or assembled the most artifacts. The activation cost of tapping and sacrificing a creature keeps it from being oppressive — you're planning a turn around it, not just dropping it and winning. Legacy and Vintage have it legal but largely ignore it; the effect is too slow and conditional for those formats, where threats close games before a 2/2 can untap. Oathbreaker is worth noting as a niche home: lower starting hand sizes and faster board development mean the equalization effect lands harder, earlier.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.27 bulk tier
At $0.27, Magus of the Balance is bulk, and the price reflects how narrow its best homes are — it's a specialist card that most white decks don't want. The effect is unique enough that copies are unlikely to depreciate further, but don't expect any upward movement unless a high-profile stax deck puts it on camera.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.