Merchant of Secrets
Creature — Human Wizard
When this creature enters, draw a card.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Legions
- Price
- $0.10
- EDHREC rank
- #16271
Merchant of Secrets enters the battlefield and draws you a card — full stop, no conditions, no hoops. Three mana for a 1/1 that replaces itself is the floor, and in Inalla, Archmage Ritualist shells where every Wizard etb gets copied for one mana, that floor becomes a two-card draw stapled to a body.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Inalla, Archmage Ritualist
Inalla, Archmage Ritualist pays one mana to copy the Merchant of Secrets trigger, turning a single cast into two draws and two bodies — exactly the kind of incremental value the Inalla engine wants to chain together across a long game.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Merchant of Secrets is a budget cantrip body — it's never the best draw spell in the deck, but Wizard-tribal builds with Inalla, Archmage Ritualist or Adeliz, the Cinder Wind will run it for the creature type as much as the effect. In Pauper, a 1/1 for three that draws one is strictly fair, and there are better options at common, so it sees almost no play there. Legacy and Vintage have no use for it — the bar for three-mana sorcery-speed draw in those formats is impossibly high. Oathbreaker mirrors the Commander calculus: fine in a Wizard shell, invisible everywhere else.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.10 bulk tier
At $0.10, Merchant of Secrets is pure bulk — the kind of card you pull from a common box, not a store page. Price stability is a non-issue; it'll sit at a dime indefinitely because supply vastly outpaces the narrow demand.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.