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Memnarch

Legendary Artifact Creature — Wizard

{1}{U}{U}: Target permanent becomes an artifact in addition to its other types. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)
{3}{U}: Gain control of target artifact. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

CMC
7
Mana cost
{7}
Color identity
U
Rarity
rare
Set
Secret Lair Drop
Price
$8.36
EDHREC rank
#7674
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Memnarch card art
Memnarch turns any permanent on the board into yours — artifacts, lands, enchantments, creatures — for a repeatable mana investment that ends games if left unanswered. The setup cost is steep, but Steelswarm Operator closes the gap by providing the mana to activate it immediately on the turn it lands.

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 Memnarch lives — as either the commander itself or a value piece in blue artifact and theft strategies, the activated ability scales with how much mana your deck can generate, and blue shells are well-equipped to protect it. Legacy and Vintage are technically legal, but a seven-mana artifact creature with no immediate impact has no competitive foothold in either format. Oathbreaker is the only other format where Memnarch is plausible, slotted as a card in the 58 under a blue planeswalker that accelerates mana.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

Memnarch's combination of repeated theft across all permanent types is genuinely hard to replicate cheaply — most alternatives either cost more to activate or target a narrower range of permanents. Indenture and Callous Oppressor trade blows with creature theft at lower mana investment, and Blatant Thievery gets you a one-time multi-target steal for less setup, but none of them match the repeatable, every-permanent scope that makes Memnarch worth building around.

Price Context

Current price

$8.36 mid tier

At $8.36, Memnarch sits comfortably in the mid tier — expensive enough to feel like a deliberate include, cheap enough that it won't break a casual budget. It's a Commander-specific card with a stable demand floor, so the price is unlikely to crater unless a reprint hits a high-distribution product.

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