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Sakashima of a Thousand Faces

Legendary Creature — Human Rogue

You may have Sakashima enter as a copy of another creature you control, except it has Sakashima's other abilities.
The "legend rule" doesn't apply to permanents you control.
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

CMC
4
Mana cost
{3}{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
mythic
Set
Avatar: The Last Airbender Eternal
Price
$18.05
EDHREC rank
#1089
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Sakashima of a Thousand Faces card art
Sakashima of a Thousand Faces lets you run a second copy of your commander in the zone, sidestepping the legendary rule entirely — that single line of text is worth the four-mana asking price in any deck built around a powerful legend. Commanders like Gyruda, Doom of Depths that mill and reanimate from the top are the clearest beneficiary, but any legend-matters shell from Orvar, the All-Form to token doublers gets real mileage here.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Gyruda, Doom of Depths

Gyruda, Doom of Depths

67.2% of decks · synergy 0.62

Gyruda, Doom of Depths is the canonical home: two Gyrudas on the battlefield means each trigger mills both players and lets you reanimate from a freshly doubled pool, creating a loop that frequently ends the game on the spot. Sakashima of a Thousand Faces appears in over 67% of Gyruda lists for exactly this reason.

02
Koma, Cosmos Serpent

Koma, Cosmos Serpent

49.3% of decks · synergy 0.44

Koma, Cosmos Serpent generates a Serpent token at the start of every upkeep, so a second Koma courtesy of Sakashima of a Thousand Faces doubles that output and gives you two independent indestructibility activations to protect your board.

03

Aang, at the Crossroads

44.7% of decks · synergy 0.42

Aang, at the Crossroads rewards controlling multiple legendary permanents, and Sakashima of a Thousand Faces is the cleanest way to run a second copy of the commander itself without either copy dying to the legend rule.

04
Gor Muldrak, Amphinologist

Gor Muldrak, Amphinologist

37.7% of decks · synergy 0.33

Gor Muldrak, Amphinologist forces each player to create Salamander Warriors if they control fewer than their opponents, and duplicating the effect with Sakashima of a Thousand Faces accelerates the token-flooding plan that the deck is built around.

05
Cynette, Jelly Drover

Cynette, Jelly Drover

38.8% of decks · synergy 0.33

Cynette, Jelly Drover cares about tokens entering the battlefield, and having two copies of the commander active via Sakashima of a Thousand Faces stacks the payoff triggers so every token event counts twice.

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

Commander is the only format where Sakashima of a Thousand Faces is doing real work — the legendary-rule override is a Commander-specific problem, and the whole card is designed around it. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but practically invisible: four mana for a Clone variant is far too slow when those formats demand interaction in the first two turns. Oathbreaker shares the singleton-commander structure, so the same logic applies there at a smaller scale. Don't expect Sakashima of a Thousand Faces to migrate into Modern or Pioneer; it's not on those lists, and the effect doesn't fill a hole those formats care about.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

3,026 decks
Orvar, the All-FormSakashima of a Thousand FacesMind Games

Orvar, the All-FormSakashima of a Thousand FacesMind Games

Infinite copies of artifacts, creatures and lands you control; Infinite creature tokens; Infinite ETB; Infinite landfall triggers; Infinite magecraft triggers; Infinite mana lands you control can produce; Infinite proliferate; Infinite storm count

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2,385 decks
Orvar, the All-FormSakashima of a Thousand FacesClockspinning

Orvar, the All-FormSakashima of a Thousand FacesClockspinning

Infinite copies of permanents you control; Infinite creature tokens; Infinite ETB; Infinite landfall triggers; Infinite magecraft triggers; Infinite mana lands you control can produce; Infinite proliferate; Infinite storm count

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Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

Sakashima of a Thousand Faces is unique enough that no budget card fully replicates it — the legend-rule override is the whole point, and nothing under a dollar does that. Mirror Gallery and Sakashima the Impostor both remove or work around the legend rule, with Sakashima the Impostor being a direct creature copy that stays cheap at under a dollar, though it lacks the passive that lets your other legends coexist. If you only need the copy effect and your commander isn't legendary-count-dependent, a generic Clone effect like Phantasmal Image handles the job at a fraction of the price with the trade-off that legends killing each other becomes your problem again.

Price Context

Current price

$18.05 mid tier

At $18.05, Sakashima of a Thousand Faces sits in mid-tier territory — expensive enough to feel like a deliberate purchase, cheap enough that it's accessible for most Commander budgets. The price is justified by the fact that no other card does exactly what it does; demand stays steady from Gyruda combo players alone, so this isn't likely to crater.

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