Meddling Mage
Creature — Human Wizard
As this creature enters, choose a nonland card name.
Spells with the chosen name can't be cast.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- UW
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Double Masters
- Price
- $2.19
- EDHREC rank
- #17308
Meddling Mage shuts off a named card completely for as long as it stays on the battlefield — that's a two-mana lock piece with a body, which is a genuinely strong rate. The cost is fragility: it dies to any removal spell, and if your opponent can answer it, whatever you named comes right back online.
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 |
In Commander, Meddling Mage is a political tool and a combo-hate piece — naming an opponent's win condition or a key tutor target can buy you several turns, though the four-player threat assessment means it attracts removal fast. In Legacy and Vintage, Meddling Mage earns real play in hatebears shells, where naming a format-defining card on turn two can lock an opponent out of their game plan before they've established anything. Modern sees it in similar aggressive-disruption builds alongside other one- and two-mana taxers, where the body is relevant and the effect punishes linear combo decks. Pioneer and Standard legality is off the table, so the card lives entirely in eternal and singleton formats.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$2.19 cheap tier
At $2.19, Meddling Mage sits comfortably in budget range for a card with legitimate eternal-format play. That price is unlikely to erode given consistent demand from hatebears players in Legacy and Modern, and Commander interest keeps a floor under it.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.