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Sage of Mysteries

Creature — Human Wizard

Constellation — Whenever an enchantment you control enters, target player mills two cards.

CMC
1
Mana cost
{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Theros Beyond Death
Price
$0.27
EDHREC rank
#16445
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Sage of Mysteries card art
Sage of Mysteries mills two cards per enchantment that enters attached to a creature you control — in the right shell, that triggers four or five times a turn. The cost is real: it does nothing without an aura-heavy gameplan, and Bruna, Light of Alabaster decks are essentially the only home where it earns a slot, though Mirrormade can double up the trigger engine if you need redundancy.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Bruna, Light of Alabaster

Bruna, Light of Alabaster

16.1% of decks · synergy 0.16

Bruna, Light of Alabaster attaches auras en masse from graveyard and hand during combat, turning Sage of Mysteries into a mini-mill engine that fires repeatedly on a single attack step — the synergy is direct enough that Sage shows up in roughly one in six Bruna builds.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Sage of Mysteries is a Commander card front to back — the payoff scales with the number of enchantments entering the battlefield in a single turn, which aura-voltron strategies in a 100-card singleton format can reliably manufacture. In competitive Constructed formats like Modern, Pioneer, and Legacy it is simply outclassed: dedicated mill decks have faster, unconditional options, and aura-centric decks in those formats are not trying to win through milling. The card is legal in Oathbreaker, where a Bruna-adjacent build could theoretically port the engine, but the 20-life starting total makes milling a slower path to victory. Unless you're building enchantress or aura-voltron in Commander, Sage of Mysteries doesn't have a home.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.27 bulk tier

At $0.27, Sage of Mysteries is deep bulk — a throw-in in any trade binder. It's a narrow card with a narrow audience, so don't expect demand to push the price anywhere meaningful; pick it up for a quarter and don't look back.

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