Sage's Knowledge
Sorcery
Return target sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Portal Three Kingdoms
- Price
- $3.55
- EDHREC rank
- #27668
Sage's Knowledge puts a counter on target creature or planeswalker — one counter, at sorcery speed, for two mana — and that's the whole card. It's a filler effect that competitive decks outgrew before they started, and casual tables have better options at the same price point.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Sage's Knowledge is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legality and playability are different conversations. In Pauper, where card efficiency is scrutinized most harshly, a two-mana sorcery that places a single +1/+1 counter doesn't clear the bar when Hunger of the Howlpack and similar effects exist. In Commander, the bar is even higher — 99-card singleton demands each slot pull real weight, and one counter on one permanent at sorcery speed doesn't come close. Legacy and Vintage aren't realistic homes either; those formats punish slow, low-impact spells at a fundamental level.
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Price Context
Current price
$3.55 cheap tier
At $3.55, Sage's Knowledge sits in a price tier that far outpaces its in-game value — you're paying a rare-territory price for a common-level effect. That price likely reflects low supply on a low-print-run card rather than any real demand, and it won't hold if attention ever turns to it.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.