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Maralen of the Mornsong

Legendary Creature — Elf Wizard

Players can't draw cards.
At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player loses 3 life, searches their library for a card, puts it into their hand, then shuffles.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{1}{B}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
rare
Set
Morningtide
Price
$37.65
EDHREC rank
#9976
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Maralen of the Mornsong card art
Maralen of the Mornsong shuts off every player's draw step and replaces it with a tutor — which sounds symmetrical until you pair her with Opposition Agent or a similar effect that hijacks what opponents search for. The cost is real: you're handing three opponents a free tutor each turn unless you can lock them out immediately, so she rewards tight, fast combo builds and punishes anything slower.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where Maralen of the Mornsong actually lives — she's a three-mana tutor engine that doubles as a hate piece, and the multiplayer dynamic means opponents will race to use her ability before you can exploit it, which creates enough chaos to make the symmetry somewhat manageable. In Legacy and Vintage she's technically legal but nearly invisible; faster, cleaner tutors like Demonic Tutor and Imperial Seal do the job without handing the table free searches. Oathbreaker is an interesting fringe case where she can serve as the Planeswalker's signature spell target, though even there the free-tutor-for-opponents problem is acute in a lower-life-total format.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

No card fully replicates Maralen of the Mornsong's tutor-locking combination, but Scheming Symmetry gets you a two-mana tutor that also gives an opponent a search — and at under a dollar, it's the closest functional cousin if all you want is the tutor effect. If the lockout angle is the draw, Ob Nixilis, Unshackled is a much cheaper way to punish opponent searches, pairing well with any repeatable tutor effect you already run.

Price Context

Current price

$37.65 premium tier

At $37.65, Maralen of the Mornsong sits firmly in the premium tier — justified by a unique effect that no other card replicates and a combo ceiling that keeps demand steady among combo and stax players. The price is unlikely to soften as long as Opposition Agent and similar effects remain popular, since that pairing is the primary reason competitive players seek her out.

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