Mayael the Anima
Legendary Creature — Elf Shaman
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: Look at the top five cards of your library. You may put a creature card with power 5 or greater from among them onto the battlefield. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GRW
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Commander's Arsenal Oversized
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #14566
Mayael the Anima turns six mana and a tap into a free creature with power 5 or greater directly onto the battlefield — repeatably, at instant speed at end of turn. The six-mana activation cost is real, but every hit skips the casting cost entirely, so one Blightsteel Colossus or Woodfall Primus makes the math collapse in your favor.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Mayael the Anima lives — she's the engine and the commander slot simultaneously, and a deck built around her is just stacking the top-five odds with tutors and shuffle effects. In Legacy and Vintage she's technically legal but entirely absent from those formats; the activation cost and sorcery-adjacent timing can't compete with what those formats are doing by turn three. Oathbreaker is theoretically possible but the format's lower life totals and faster pace make a six-mana tap ability too slow to matter.
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Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data isn't available in the current context, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for a live number. Mayael the Anima has seen multiple printings and tends to sit in an accessible range — she's not a chase mythic, but demand from Commander players keeps her from bottoming out.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.