Roilmage's Trick
Instant
Converge — Creatures your opponents control get -X/-0 until end of turn, where X is the number of colors of mana spent to cast this spell.
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- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Battle for Zendikar
- Price
- $0.06
- EDHREC rank
- #28803
Roilmage's Trick bounces a creature and draws a card for four mana — functional, but overcosted at instant speed in a format where three-mana cantripping removal exists. It does the job; it just does it inefficiently enough that it rarely makes competitive cuts.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Roilmage's Trick is legal across Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but the formats where it might see play are also the formats where it faces the steepest competition. In Commander, four mana for a bounce-plus-draw is passable in budget builds that need to stretch their interaction, but any list with access to Brazen Borrower or Into the Roil has better options at the same or lower cost. In Pauper, where the card pool is constrained, the bounce-draw mode becomes more interesting — commons-only removal is thinner, and a two-for-one at common rarity has real utility. Elsewhere, the rate simply doesn't compete.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.06 bulk tier
At $0.06, Roilmage's Trick sits firmly in bulk territory — you'll find it in commons boxes, not trade binders. The price is stable because demand is low, not because supply is scarce, so don't expect movement in either direction.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.