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Rasputin Dreamweaver

Legendary Creature — Human Wizard

Rasputin enters with seven dream counters on it.
Remove a dream counter from Rasputin: Add {C}.
Remove a dream counter from Rasputin: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to Rasputin this turn.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if Rasputin started the turn untapped, put a dream counter on it.
Rasputin can't have more than seven dream counters on it.

CMC
6
Mana cost
{4}{W}{U}
Color identity
UW
Rarity
rare
Set
Legends
Price
$131.61
EDHREC rank
#21402
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Rasputin Dreamweaver card art
Rasputin Dreamweaver enters with up to seven dream counters and converts them into colorless mana — effectively a repeatable ritual stapled to a body, with the bonus that Eldrazi Displacer can blink it to reset the counter supply every turn cycle. The cost is a six-mana investment in a legendary creature that dies to any removal spell and does nothing if it lands on an empty counter.

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 Rasputin Dreamweaver actually lives — it headlined its own precon and serves as a generative engine for blink and combo shells in the 99. Legacy and Vintage allow it, but a six-mana do-nothing-the-turn-it-enters creature has never been a competitive consideration in either format. Outside Commander, this card simply doesn't see play.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

There is no direct budget replacement for Rasputin Dreamweaver — the combination of a self-contained mana battery and blink-reset loop is unique to it. Blinkmoth Urn or Worn Powerstone fill the colorless-mana-production role at a fraction of the price, but neither recharges on demand or generates the kind of burst that makes Rasputin the centerpiece of a combo turn.

Price Context

Current price

$131.61 premium tier

At $131.61, Rasputin Dreamweaver sits firmly in the premium tier — driven almost entirely by Commander demand following its precon reprint, which failed to fully suppress the price. It holds value as long as blink-combo remains a popular Commander archetype, but there is no guarantee a second reprint won't crater it.

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