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Mystic Redaction

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, scry 1.
Whenever you discard a card, each opponent mills two cards. (They put the top two cards of their library into their graveyard.)

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Modern Horizons 2
Price
$0.18
EDHREC rank
#12163
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Mystic Redaction card art
Mystic Redaction turns every instant and sorcery your opponents cast into a discard trigger, which in wheels-matter decks snowballs faster than most tables expect. It's a cheaper, enchantment-based cousin to Whispering Madness that doesn't require you to connect with combat damage — just let them play their own spells.

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 Mystic Redaction lives — three opponents casting spells means three discard triggers per round, and in a wheels shell that synergy compounds quickly. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but competes with faster, more reliable discard engines and sees no meaningful play. Oathbreaker gives it a smaller table to work with, which cuts the ceiling, but the two-mana cost still makes it a playable roleplayer in the right spellslinger build.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.18 bulk tier

At $0.18, Mystic Redaction is pure bulk — you're paying a dollar in shipping before the card itself matters. That price is unlikely to climb unless a high-profile Commander precon puts a wheels strategy in mass circulation, so pick up copies freely and don't think twice about it.

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