Omnispell Adept
Creature — Human Wizard
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: You may cast an instant or sorcery spell from your hand without paying its mana cost.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Guilds of Ravnica
- Price
- $0.24
- EDHREC rank
- #18390
Omnispell Adept lets you cast any instant or sorcery for free by tapping it — the catch is a six-mana 2/3 body with no protection and no built-in way to untap. The payoff is real in decks that can abuse the tap ability repeatedly, but the setup cost means it earns its slot only in dedicated spellslinger shells.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Omnispell Adept actually lives — the singleton format's longer games give you time to deploy a six-mana creature and then profit from repeated free activations across multiple turns. In Legacy, Vintage, Modern, and Pioneer it's legal but functionally irrelevant: those formats end too fast for a six-mana do-nothing-on-entry creature to matter, and the free-spell effect isn't broken enough to build around competitively. Omnispell Adept is a Commander card wearing a format-legal badge.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.24 bulk tier
At $0.24, Omnispell Adept is pure bulk — you're paying almost nothing for a niche effect that fits a narrow range of decks. The price reflects its limited competitive demand, so it's unlikely to spike unless a new Commander emerges that makes repeated free-spell activations a centerpiece strategy.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.