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Quintorius, Field Historian

Legendary Creature — Elephant Cleric

Spirits you control get +1/+0.
Whenever one or more cards leave your graveyard, create a 3/2 red and white Spirit creature token.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{3}{R}{W}
Color identity
RW
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Strixhaven: School of Mages
Price
$0.17
EDHREC rank
#10688
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Quintorius, Field Historian card art
Quintorius, Field Historian puts a 3/2 Spirit on the board every time a card leaves your graveyard — and with recursive threats like Squee, the Immortal bouncing in and out, that trigger fires repeatedly without much setup. The floor is a 2/3 body for three mana; the ceiling is an engine that floods the board, which is exactly why Quintorius, History Chaser runs it in over 84% of builds.

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Quintorius, History Chaser

Quintorius, History Chaser

84.7% of decks · synergy 0.82

Quintorius, History Chaser's ability to discover and exile cards from graveyards means Quintorius, Field Historian is generating Spirits on virtually every activation — the two share a name, a color identity, and a core loop that makes Field Historian an auto-include rather than a consideration.

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

Commander is where Quintorius, Field Historian does its best work — graveyard recursion is endemic to the format, and any deck cycling through its own graveyard rewards you with a continuous stream of 3/2 tokens without dedicating extra card slots to token production. In Modern and Pioneer the card is legal but sees negligible play; three mana for a conditional token generator doesn't clear the efficiency bar those formats demand. Legacy and Vintage are similarly open but uninterested — the effect is powerful only when the surrounding graveyard density is high, and those formats rarely build around it. Stick to Commander unless you're specifically architecting a graveyard-matters brew in a lower-power 60-card context.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.17 bulk tier

At $0.17, Quintorius, Field Historian is bulk in every sense — you're picking it out of a dollar box, not tracking it on a buylist. Bulk rares with genuine combo potential tend to stay flat or drift slightly upward as they find their niche, but at this price the question isn't value, it's just whether you've already sleeved one up.

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