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Saheeli Rai

Legendary Planeswalker — Saheeli

+1: Scry 1. Saheeli Rai deals 1 damage to each opponent.
−2: Create a token that's a copy of target artifact or creature you control, except it's an artifact in addition to its other types. That token gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.
−7: Search your library for up to three artifact cards with different names, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{1}{U}{R}
Color identity
RU
Rarity
mythic
Set
The List
Price
$1.89
EDHREC rank
#7192
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Saheeli Rai card art
Saheeli Rai is in your deck because she enables one of the most compact infinite combos in Commander — paired with Felidar Guardian, she produces infinite enter-the-battlefield triggers at instant speed for three mana total. The cost is that she's fragile at three loyalty and does very little if the combo piece isn't available, so she leans heavily on support structures like Sisay, Weatherlight Captain to find her half of the equation.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Sisay, Weatherlight Captain

Sisay, Weatherlight Captain

30.1% of decks · synergy 0.29

Sisay, Weatherlight Captain can tutor Saheeli Rai directly onto the battlefield, making Saheeli a reliable combo piece rather than a card you hope to draw — she's a legendary planeswalker, so Sisay finds her on command.

02
Saheeli, the Gifted

Saheeli, the Gifted

17.6% of decks · synergy 0.16

Saheeli, the Gifted decks double down on the artifact and artifact-creature synergies both Saheelis share, and Saheeli Rai slots in as a secondary value engine and combo threat that complements the cost-reduction gameplan.

03
Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph

Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph

14.2% of decks · synergy 0.13

Saheeli Rai's minus ability creates a token copy of an artifact creature, and in a Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph deck that generates repeated one-damage pings, hasty artifact creature tokens become repeatable triggers that Ghyrson can redirect into real damage.

04
Obeka, Brute Chronologist

Obeka, Brute Chronologist

13.6% of decks · synergy 0.13

Saheeli Rai's end-step token sacrifice is a downside Obeka, Brute Chronologist can simply erase — ending the turn before cleanup means the copied tokens stick, turning a one-shot effect into permanent board presence.

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

In Commander, Saheeli Rai is a role-player built around a single famous combo, and her value scales entirely with how reliably your deck can assemble Felidar Guardian alongside her. In Pioneer, the Saheeli Rai plus Felidar Guardian combo was so dominant it forced a ban on Felidar Guardian within days of the format's inception — that history tells you everything about the ceiling. In Modern and Legacy, she sees virtually no play; those formats have faster, harder-to-disrupt win conditions that make a three-mana planeswalker combo redundant. Oathbreaker is arguably her best non-Commander home, since she can serve as the commander of the deck and guarantee she's always accessible.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$1.89 cheap tier

At $1.89, Saheeli Rai sits in the cheap tier — genuinely low for a card with a notorious competitive history and meaningful Commander inclusion. That price reflects a combination of multiple reprints and the Felidar Guardian ban removing her from Pioneer demand, so don't expect it to climb.

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