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Sage of the Maze

Creature — Elf Wizard

{T}: Add two mana in any combination of colors.
{T}: Until end of turn, target land you control becomes an X/X Citizen creature with haste in addition to its other types, where X is twice the number of Gates you control. Activate only as a sorcery.
Tap an untapped Gate you control: Untap this creature.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
rare
Set
Modern Horizons 3 Commander
Price
$0.49
EDHREC rank
#5221
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Sage of the Maze card art
Sage of the Maze enters the battlefield as every land type, which means Omo, Queen of Vesuva can immediately use it as a type-spreading engine and Springheart Nantuko can copy it for recursive value. The cost is that it does nothing without a deck built around land-type payoffs — in a vacuum it's a vanilla 2/2.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Omo, Queen of Vesuva

Omo, Queen of Vesuva

71.4% of decks · synergy 0.68

Omo, Queen of Vesuva places counters that grant creature types, and Sage of the Maze's land-type identity feeds directly into that cross-type synergy engine, making it one of the most consistent includes in the format at 71% inclusion.

02
Nine-Fingers Keene

Nine-Fingers Keene

61.8% of decks · synergy 0.60

Nine-Fingers Keene cares about controlling lands of many basic land types, and Sage of the Maze enters as all of them at once — it's a one-card answer to the color requirement that Keene needs to go wide.

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

Sage of the Maze is a Commander card through and through — the land-type-matters synergies it enables are dense in that format and nearly absent elsewhere. It's legal in Legacy and Vintage but sees no meaningful play there; a 2/2 for two with no immediate impact doesn't compete in those environments. Commander is where the card earns its slot, specifically in decks helmed by commanders that reward controlling multiple land types or generating token copies.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.49 bulk tier

At $0.49, Sage of the Maze sits firmly in bulk territory, which is accurate for a card with narrow application. It holds that floor because the Omo and Keene demand is real — don't expect it to rise, but it won't fall further either.

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