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Rydia, Summoner of Mist

Legendary Creature — Human Shaman

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may discard a card. If you do, draw a card.
Summon — {X}, {T}: Return target Saga card with mana value X from your graveyard to the battlefield with a finality counter on it. It gains haste until end of turn. Activate only as a sorcery.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{R}{G}
Color identity
GR
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Final Fantasy
Price
$4.54
EDHREC rank
#5509
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Rydia, Summoner of Mist card art
Rydia, Summoner of Mist puts a free token on board every time a Saga finishes its final chapter — immediate, repeatable value that costs nothing beyond running Sagas you already want. There and Back Again and Sigurd, Jarl of Ravensthorpe are the natural homes, but any Saga-heavy shell that wants a body on the board when the enchantment leaves will find Rydia earning her slot.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Sigurd, Jarl of Ravensthorpe

Sigurd, Jarl of Ravensthorpe

57.6% of decks · synergy 0.56

Sigurd, Jarl of Ravensthorpe is the tightest fit: his deck is built around Norse Sagas, so Rydia, Summoner of Mist turns every final chapter into a free creature, accelerating the board state Sigurd is already trying to build.

02

Terra, Magical Adept

54.6% of decks · synergy 0.51

Terra, Magical Adept leans on enchantments and Sagas throughout the Final Fantasy set, and Rydia, Summoner of Mist gives that shell an extra reward layer — each Saga that completes drops a token before it hits the graveyard.

03
Tannuk, Memorial Ensign

Tannuk, Memorial Ensign

29.3% of decks · synergy 0.27

Tannuk, Memorial Ensign cares about tokens and synergistic creatures entering the battlefield, so Rydia, Summoner of Mist slotting into a Saga-adjacent build means Tannuk's payoffs trigger more often without additional investment.

04
Tom Bombadil

Tom Bombadil

22.0% of decks · synergy 0.18

Tom Bombadil turns every Saga into a draw spell, and Rydia, Summoner of Mist stacks a free token on top of that — players who already run Sagas for Tom's lore-counter engine get both benefits from the same enchantments.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Rydia, Summoner of Mist is legal in every major constructed format, but Commander is where she actually earns a slot. In competitive 60-card formats — Modern, Pioneer, Standard — Sagas are played for their chapter effects, and a three-mana 2/2 that triggers only on the final chapter is too slow and too conditional to compete for a slot. Commander changes the math entirely: the 100-card singleton environment rewards engines over rate, and a deck built around Sagas can trigger Rydia multiple times per game. Oathbreaker is worth a mention if a Saga-centric planeswalker shell wants a complementary creature, but the ceiling there is lower than in Commander's larger card pool.

Key Combos

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Price Context

Current price

$4.54 cheap tier

At $4.54, Rydia, Summoner of Mist sits at the high end of the cheap tier — fair for a build-around rare with a clear engine role, but you're paying a small premium given she only fully delivers in dedicated Saga decks. The price holds as long as Saga-matters commanders remain popular; if the archetype loses momentum, she's a $2 card.

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