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Pearl Medallion

Artifact

White spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{2}
Color identity
C
Rarity
rare
Set
Commander Masters
Price
$4.79
EDHREC rank
#483
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Pearl Medallion card art
Pearl Medallion is one of the cleanest pieces of white ramp in Commander — every white spell you cast costs one less, which compounds immediately in creature-heavy or spell-dense lists. At two mana with no ongoing cost, the payback window is fast enough that even a single Graceful Reprieve off the top makes it worthwhile, and in a Sigarda, Font of Blessings deck stacked with Angels and Humans it's quietly one of the best cards in the 99.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Sigarda, Font of Blessings

Sigarda, Font of Blessings

28.7% of decks · synergy 0.25

Sigarda, Font of Blessings runs a high density of white creatures, and Pearl Medallion turns that into a conveyor belt — shaving a mana off every Angel or Human you cast means Sigarda's hexproof-granting ability protects a board that hit the table a full turn ahead of schedule.

02

Ajani, Nacatl Pariah

28.2% of decks · synergy 0.22

Ajani, Nacatl Pariah wants to flood the board with Cats and pump them, and Pearl Medallion accelerates that plan by making every white creature cheaper, letting Ajani's token engine get ahead of the removal that would otherwise disrupt it.

03
Grand Arbiter Augustin IV

Grand Arbiter Augustin IV

27.5% of decks · synergy 0.20

Grand Arbiter Augustin IV already taxes opponents' spells, and Pearl Medallion widens that gap further — your white spells cost less while theirs cost more, creating an asymmetry that compounds turn over turn in a prison or control shell.

04
Lorehold, the Historian

Lorehold, the Historian

25.8% of decks · synergy 0.20

Lorehold, the Historian churns through historic spells, and Pearl Medallion keeps the engine moving by trimming the cost on the white side of that spell chain, making it easier to string multiple casts together in a single turn.

05
Gisela, Blade of Goldnight

Gisela, Blade of Goldnight

24.9% of decks · synergy 0.19

Gisela, Blade of Goldnight sits at six mana, and in a Boros deck that often struggles with ramp, Pearl Medallion is one of the few pieces that meaningfully advances the clock toward getting her into play.

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 Pearl Medallion does its best work — white is the weakest color for ramp, so a permanent that shaves a mana off every white spell is a structural fix, not just a convenience. In 100-card singleton, the effect scales with how many white spells you're casting per game, which means tribal and weenie builds extract more value than controlling shells running 20 white spells. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but never played; the formats move too fast for a two-mana do-nothing artifact that doesn't interact with the board. Oathbreaker is a reasonable home for the same reasons as Commander — white spell density is high and ramp is scarce.

Key Combos

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Price Context

Current price

$4.79 cheap tier

At $4.79, Pearl Medallion sits in the cheap tier and is priced correctly for what it does — it's a staple in a specific slice of Commander decks, not a universal inclusion, so demand stays steady without spiking. It's a safe pickup that won't lose value, but buy it because you need it, not as a hold.

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