Overmaster
Sorcery
The next instant or sorcery spell you cast this turn can't be countered.
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- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Dominaria Remastered
- Price
- $2.77
- EDHREC rank
- #3064
Overmaster makes your next sorcery or instant uncounterable and replaces itself — the cost is that the protection only lasts until end of turn, so sequencing matters. In Urabrask decks that need a key spell to resolve through blue, this is a one-mana insurance policy that leaves you up a card.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Urabrask
Urabrask's game plan runs through resolved impulsive-draw spells and damage triggers, and Overmaster clears the path for the critical sorcery or instant that makes the engine fire without giving opponents a counterspell window.
Ashling, Flame Dancer
Ashling, Flame Dancer wants her instant and sorcery spells to actually resolve so she can stack spell counters and trigger her copy ability — Overmaster protects that spell for one mana and replaces itself, keeping the chain intact.
Electro, Assaulting Battery
Electro, Assaulting Battery rewards casting instants and sorceries, so Overmaster not only shields a key spell but contributes to the spell-count payoffs Electro, Assaulting Battery is already tracking.
Krark, the Thumbless // Sakashima of a Thousand Faces
Krark, the Thumbless // Sakashima of a Thousand Faces flips spells repeatedly, and Overmaster is exactly the kind of cheap instant that feeds Krark's trigger while guaranteeing the spell it protects lands regardless of the coin flip's chaos.
Rionya, Fire Dancer
Rionya, Fire Dancer scales her token production off the number of instants and sorceries cast each turn, so Overmaster does double duty — it pads that count and ensures the headlining spell that spawns a pile of tokens doesn't get countered on the way through.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Overmaster earns its slot: countermagic is ubiquitous, one mana is negligible, and drawing a card means you're not paying a real resource for the protection. In Legacy and Vintage, the card sees essentially no play — formats with Force of Will and free interaction make a sorcery-speed protective spell too slow for the combo decks that would theoretically want it, and control mirrors don't cast the kind of haymaker sorceries that need this treatment. Overmaster is legal in Oathbreaker as well, where the smaller card pools and faster games make a cheap spell-protection piece at least plausible. The honest read is that this is a Commander card through and through, and specifically a red-heavy spell-slinger Commander card.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$2.77 cheap tier
At $2.77, Overmaster sits in the easy-inclusion tier — cheap enough to slot into any red spell-slinger build without a second thought. It's a narrow card with a dedicated audience, so the price is stable rather than likely to move in either direction.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Urabrask
- Ashling, Flame Dancer
- Electro, Assaulting Battery
- Krark, the Thumbless // Sakashima of a Thousand Faces
- Rionya, Fire Dancer
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.