Is Mischievous Quanar good in Commander?

Mischievous Quanar in Commander — Combos, Decks & Price

Mischievous Quanar turns any instant or sorcery into a free copy on the stack — morph it face-up for three mana and you get the effect twice without spending a second card. The setup cost is real, but in a shell built around Kadena, Slinking Sorcerer or Turnabout loops, that three-mana activation becomes the engine, not the tax.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Kadena, Slinking Sorcerer

53.7% of decks · synergy 0.52

Kadena, Slinking Sorcerer draws a card the first time a face-down creature enters each turn, so Mischievous Quanar hits the battlefield as a free draw before it ever flips — and once it does flip to copy a high-impact spell, you've gotten two payoffs from one card.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

Format	Verdict
commander	legal
legacy	legal
modern	not legal
pioneer	not legal
standard	not legal
vintage	legal
pauper	not legal
oathbreaker	legal

Mischievous Quanar is a Commander card through and through — the slow morph setup and three-mana activation are a fine trade in a 100-card singleton format where one broken spell copied for free ends games. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but unplayable; those formats move too fast for a five-mana 3/3 that needs additional mana to do anything. Oathbreaker can support it in the right spellslinger shell, though the 20-life clock shortens the window to assemble morph synergies.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

74 decks

Mischievous QuanarTurnabout

Infinite copies of instant and sorcery spells on the stack; Infinite magecraft triggers; Infinite mana permanents you control can produce

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20 decks

Mischievous QuanarBrass's Bounty

Infinite colored mana; Infinite copies of instant and sorcery spells on the stack; Infinite magecraft triggers; Infinite Treasure tokens

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11 decks

Mischievous QuanarReset

Infinite copies of instant and sorcery spells on the stack; Infinite magecraft triggers; Infinite mana lands you control can produce; Infinite untap of lands you control

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11 decks

Mischievous QuanarRude Awakening

Infinite copies of instant and sorcery spells on the stack; Infinite magecraft triggers; Infinite mana lands you control can produce; Infinite untap of lands you control

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1 decks

Mischievous QuanarMana Geyser Chromatic Orrery

Infinite colored mana; Infinite copies of instant and sorcery spells on the stack; Infinite magecraft triggers

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Price Context

Current price

$1.01 cheap tier

At $1.01, Mischievous Quanar sits firmly in the cheap tier — low enough that there's no budget reason to skip it if the strategy fits. It's a narrow card with a dedicated audience, so the price is unlikely to move much unless a high-profile morph commander pushes adoption higher.