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Oriq Loremage

Creature — Human Warlock

{T}: Search your library for a card, put it into your graveyard, then shuffle. If it's an instant or sorcery card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{2}{B}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
rare
Set
Strixhaven: School of Mages Promos
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#4765
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Oriq Loremage card art
Oriq Loremage puts any card with mana value 6 or greater directly into your graveyard — no milling, no chance of whiffing — which makes it one of the most reliable graveyard-loading engines in black. The tap cost and lack of haste mean it does nothing the turn it enters, but commanders like Admiral Brass, Unsinkable and The Beamtown Bullies turn that single activation into an immediate payoff that justifies the four-mana price tag.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
The Beamtown Bullies

The Beamtown Bullies

63.8% of decks · synergy 0.62

The Beamtown Bullies needs a specific high-mana-value creature in the graveyard before it can reanimate at instant speed during combat, and Oriq Loremage is the most consistent way to put exactly the right threat there on demand — no randomness, no bulk.

02
Magar of the Magic Strings

Magar of the Magic Strings

56.0% of decks · synergy 0.55

Magar of the Magic Strings wants instants and sorceries with mana value 6 or greater in the graveyard to copy with its creature tokens, and Oriq Loremage surgically places the exact spell you want rather than hoping a wheel or discard outlet hits it.

03
Mairsil, the Pretender

Mairsil, the Pretender

55.2% of decks · synergy 0.55

Mairsil, the Pretender cages abilities from creatures and artifacts in the graveyard or exile, so Oriq Loremage doubles as both a cage target and a setup piece — tutor the ability you need directly into the yard, then exile it with Mairsil.

05
Trazyn the Infinite

Trazyn the Infinite

36.3% of decks · synergy 0.35

Trazyn the Infinite copies activated abilities of artifact creatures in the graveyard, so Oriq Loremage slots in as a repeatable tutor-to-yard that ensures the right artifact creature is available for Trazyn to copy on any given turn.

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

Oriq Loremage is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but Commander is the only format where it regularly earns a slot. In competitive Constructed, four mana for a tap-to-mill-one effect is too slow — graveyard decks in Modern and Pioneer have faster, cheaper ways to fill the bin and don't want a creature that does nothing until the following turn. In Commander, the singleton constraint makes surgical graveyard loading genuinely valuable, and Oriq Loremage's ability to name and place any card with mana value 6 or greater turns a potential liability into a precision tool that redundant looters can't replicate.

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Price Context

Current price

unknown tier

Pricing data for Oriq Loremage isn't currently available through this source, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the most current figures. Given its narrow but high-demand role in reanimator and graveyard-synergy Commander decks, it tends to hold modest value — worth picking up if you're building around The Beamtown Bullies or Greasefang, Okiba Boss rather than treating it as a speculative hold.

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