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Narset, Enlightened Master

Legendary Creature — Human Monk

First strike, hexproof
Whenever Narset attacks, exile the top four cards of your library. Until end of turn, you may cast noncreature spells from among those cards without paying their mana costs.

CMC
6
Mana cost
{3}{U}{R}{W}
Color identity
RUW
Rarity
mythic
Set
Commander Masters
Price
$0.48
EDHREC rank
#7953
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Narset, Enlightened Master card art
Narset, Enlightened Master hits the table with hexproof and first strike on a 3/2 body, but the engine is the attack trigger — exile the top four cards and cast any number of noncreature, nonland spells among them for free. The cost is six mana and a color identity that demands four-color or Jeskai commitment, which disqualifies her from most lists that can't support it; outside that constraint, she's a build-around powerhouse with real combo potential alongside cards like Mirror of Fate and Commodore Guff.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Commodore Guff

Commodore Guff

29.0% of decks · synergy 0.27

Commodore Guff runs Narset, Enlightened Master because a planeswalker-heavy shell already wants free extra-turn and spell-copying effects, and Narset's attack trigger delivers both at no mana cost when the top of the library is stacked correctly.

02
The Archimandrite

The Archimandrite

24.5% of decks · synergy 0.22

The Archimandrite cares about having five or more creature types on board, and Narset, Enlightened Master fills the Monk slot while independently threatening to bury the table in free spells off a single attack.

03
Narset, Enlightened Exile

Narset, Enlightened Exile

14.1% of decks · synergy 0.12

Narset, Enlightened Exile is the modern iteration of the same character, and the two pair naturally — Narset, Enlightened Master's free-cast trigger stacks with the Exile's ability to grant keyword soup, letting the Master attack with even more keywords to maximize how many exiled cards resolve.

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 the natural home for Narset, Enlightened Master — she's a legitimate build-around commander in her own right and a potent include in any Jeskai or four-color shell that can support her pip requirements. In Legacy, she's legal but far too slow at six mana with no immediate board impact against a format full of one-mana interaction. Modern and Pioneer are the same story: the format's pace makes resolving a six-mana creature that doesn't protect itself on entry a poor gamble. Oathbreaker is where she earns a second look, since the smaller card pool and lower starting life total make a single free-spell trigger off an attack disproportionately powerful.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.48 bulk tier

At $0.48, Narset, Enlightened Master is firmly bulk — an easy pickup for anyone building around her or slotting her into a compatible Commander list. Given her combo ceiling and consistent demand as a commander option, that price makes her one of the better value propositions in the six-mana range.

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