Ral and the Implicit Maze
Enchantment — Saga
(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — This Saga deals 2 damage to each creature and planeswalker your opponents control.
II — You may discard a card. If you do, exile the top two cards of your library. You may play them until the end of your next turn.
III — Create a Spellgorger Weird token. (It's a 
2/2 Weird creature with "Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, put a +1/+1 counter on Spellgorger Weird.")
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Modern Horizons 3
- Price
- $0.11
- EDHREC rank
- #18501
Ral and the Implicit Maze wins the game on the spot if you can cast five instants or sorceries in a single turn — a realistic ceiling in spell-heavy Commander decks. The setup cost is real, but the payoff is a hard 'you win,' not just a combat advantage.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is the natural home for Ral and the Implicit Maze — spell-slinger decks in Izzet or Grixis colors can realistically fire five instants or sorceries in a turn by the mid-game, and a three-mana enchantment that reads 'win the game' fits neatly into that shell. In Legacy and Vintage it's a novelty at best; those formats end games faster and through more reliable lines, so a five-spell win condition on an enchantment sits too slow and too fragile against free interaction. Oathbreaker is a sleeper home: the compressed game state and spell-focused commanders mean the threshold arrives sooner, and three mana is easy to hit early.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.11 bulk tier
At $0.11, Ral and the Implicit Maze is pure bulk — a zero-friction pickup if you're building the right deck. Bulk rares that win the game outright tend to creep up if a popular commander pushes the archetype, but at this price you're buying it for the function, not the speculation.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.