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Quintorius, History Chaser

Legendary Planeswalker — Quintorius

Whenever one or more cards leave your graveyard, create a 3/2 red and white Spirit creature token.
+1: You may discard a card. If you do, draw two cards, then mill a card.
−4: Spirits you control gain double strike and vigilance until end of turn.
Quintorius, History Chaser can be your commander.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{2}{R}{W}
Color identity
RW
Rarity
mythic
Set
Secrets of Strixhaven Commander
Price
$1.68
EDHREC rank
#12877
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Quintorius, History Chaser card art
Quintorius, History Chaser generates a Spirit token every time you cast or discover a spell from outside your hand, then pumps your team whenever a Spirit enters — stack those triggers with Phyrexian Altar and you have a self-sustaining engine that converts mana into board presence while it's still your turn. The cost is a five-mana creature that does nothing the turn it arrives without immediate support.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Quintorius, History Chaser belongs — the 99-card singleton format gives you enough discover payoffs and graveyard recursion pieces to keep the token engine firing consistently across a long game. Legacy and Vintage are both legal on paper, but a five-mana creature that needs a supporting cast has no path to those tables. Oathbreaker could work as the oathbreaker itself in a discover-focused shell, though the 60-card constraint tightens the build considerably.

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Price Context

Current price

$1.68 cheap tier

At $1.68, Quintorius, History Chaser sits in impulse-buy territory — cheap enough to pick up speculatively, and the price reflects that it hasn't broken through into high-volume Commander builds yet. If discover support continues to expand in future sets, that floor is unlikely to hold for long.

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