Mindwrack Liege
Creature — Horror
Other blue creatures you control get +1/+1.
Other red creatures you control get +1/+1.
: You may put a blue or red creature card from your hand onto the battlefield.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- RU
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Double Masters 2022
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #18861
Mindwrack Liege pumps every blue and black creature you control by +1/+1 and lets you cheat blue or black creatures directly onto the battlefield — both effects on a single six-mana body. Six mana is a real ask, but the free-cast trigger means every subsequent blue or black spell threatens to deploy a creature from hand for nothing.
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 Mindwrack Liege lives — Dimir and five-color creature decks can stack its anthem effect across a wide board while using the free-cast trigger to outpace opponents on tempo. In Legacy and Vintage, six mana is a non-starter against the format's interaction density, and the effect simply doesn't match what a turn-six play needs to accomplish in those environments. Modern has moved too fast and too efficient for a six-drop with no immediate protection to matter. Oathbreaker is technically legal, but the sixty-card, lower-life-total format doesn't change the fundamental math — Mindwrack Liege belongs in Commander.
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Price Context
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Price data for Mindwrack Liege isn't currently available in our index, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for a live number. It's an older card with a narrow home, so copies tend to be cheap when they surface — worth picking up if you're building Dimir creatures and see it under a dollar.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.