Quill-Blade Laureate // Twofold Intent
Creature — Human Cleric // Sorcery
Double strike
This creature enters prepared. (While it's prepared, you may cast a copy of its spell. Doing so unprepares it.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Secrets of Strixhaven
- Price
- $0.13
- EDHREC rank
- #22180
Quill-Blade Laureate // Twofold Intent puts a growing threat on board that rewards instant and sorcery density, then flips into a spell that copies your next instant or sorcery — all for two mana on the front end. The cost is negligible; the ceiling in spellslinger builds or alongside something like Dovescape (where every copied spell becomes a bird instead of resolving) is genuinely high.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Quill-Blade Laureate // Twofold Intent slots cleanly into any Izzet or Jeskai spellslinger build — the front face levels up fast in a format where everyone casts spells on every turn, and Twofold Intent's copy effect on a creature-attached spell is harder to answer than an equivalent sorcery. Outside Commander, the card is legal in Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but two-mana creatures that need a critical mass of instants and sorceries to shine face stiff competition in those formats. It's a Commander card playing in other formats, not the other way around.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
DovescapeDisplacer KittenPhyrexian AltarQuill-Blade Laureate // Twofold Intent
Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite colored mana; Infinite creature tokens; Infinite death triggers; Infinite magecraft triggers; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite storm count
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Current price
$0.13 bulk tier
At $0.13, Quill-Blade Laureate // Twofold Intent is deep bulk — you're picking this up in a bulk bin or as a throw-in, not hunting it down. Bulk dual-faced cards with genuine combo and synergy upside occasionally tick up as decks get built around them, but at this price the only question is whether you need a copy, and the answer is almost certainly yes.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.