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Mishra, Tamer of Mak Fawa

Legendary Creature — Human Artificer

Permanents you control have "Ward—Sacrifice a permanent."
Each artifact card in your graveyard has unearth {1}{B}{R}. ({1}{B}{R}: Return the card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

CMC
5
Mana cost
{3}{B}{R}
Color identity
BR
Rarity
rare
Set
The Brothers' War
Price
$0.35
EDHREC rank
#8723
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Mishra, Tamer of Mak Fawa card art
Mishra, Tamer of Mak Fawa turns any artifact that would hit the graveyard into a free cast from exile instead — a permanent replacement effect that requires no mana and no additional setup once it's on board. The catch is a five-mana investment in a creature that does nothing the turn it arrives, which means it gets punished hard by removal before it ever triggers; pair it with Void Maw or slot it into a Megatron, Tyrant shell where artifact recursion is already the gameplan and the value compounds fast.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01

Megatron, Tyrant

49.1% of decks · synergy 0.48

Megatron, Tyrant is the natural home — his ability to convert energy into artifact casts makes Mishra, Tamer of Mak Fawa's exile-instead-of-graveyard replacement a seamless extension of the same engine, letting artifacts cycle through destruction and back into play without touching the graveyard at all.

02
Mishra, Claimed by Gix

Mishra, Claimed by Gix

36.5% of decks · synergy 0.35

Mishra, Claimed by Gix rewards casting artifacts repeatedly, and Mishra, Tamer of Mak Fawa ensures destruction doesn't break that loop — artifacts that die get exiled and recast for free, triggering Claimed by Gix's drain effect each time.

03
Imskir Iron-Eater

Imskir Iron-Eater

27.4% of decks · synergy 0.26

Imskir Iron-Eater wants a constant supply of artifacts to sacrifice for counters and card draw, and Mishra, Tamer of Mak Fawa closes the loop by recasting those sacrificed artifacts from exile so the engine never runs dry.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Mishra, Tamer of Mak Fawa actually earns its slot — the format's slower pace gives it time to stick, and artifact-heavy commanders turn its replacement effect into a repeatable free-cast engine that snowballs over a long game. In Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer it's legally playable but practically invisible; five mana for a do-nothing-on-arrival creature can't compete in formats where the game is often decided by turn three or four. Vintage has the raw power density to make exotic five-drops work, but Mishra, Tamer of Mak Fawa isn't offering anything broken enough to warrant a slot there either. Treat it as a Commander-exclusive card in practice.

Key Combos

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Mishra, Tamer of Mak FawaVoid MawComposite Golem

Mishra, Tamer of Mak FawaVoid MawComposite Golem

Infinite blue mana; Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite green mana; Infinite LTB; Infinitely large creature until end of turn; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite white mana

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Price Context

Current price

$0.35 bulk tier

At $0.35, Mishra, Tamer of Mak Fawa sits firmly in bulk territory, which is accurate for a card with a narrow but real niche in artifact Commander decks. It's not a card that appreciates — pick up copies when you need them and don't think twice about the price.

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