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Sami, Wildcat Captain

Legendary Creature — Human Artificer Rogue

Double strike, vigilance
Spells you cast have affinity for artifacts. (They cost {1} less to cast for each artifact you control.)

CMC
6
Mana cost
{4}{R}{W}
Color identity
RW
Rarity
mythic
Set
Edge of Eternities
Price
$1.24
EDHREC rank
#5164
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Sami, Wildcat Captain card art
Sami, Wildcat Captain turns every artifact entering the battlefield into a free scry, which pairs disgustingly well with Sensei's Divining Top to lock in your draws turn after turn. The cost — two mana, low stat line, needs artifact density to do anything — is the whole conversation, and in the right shell it's a non-issue.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Ragost, Deft Gastronaut

Ragost, Deft Gastronaut

33.8% of decks · synergy 0.29

Ragost, Deft Gastronaut is the highest-synergy home for Sami, Wildcat Captain because Ragost triggers off artifacts entering under opponents' control too, and Sami's scry chains let you stack your deck around every bounce and blink Ragost generates.

02
Alibou, Ancient Witness

Alibou, Ancient Witness

27.0% of decks · synergy 0.22

Alibou, Ancient Witness wants a dense artifact count and rewards you for tapping them — Sami, Wildcat Captain slots in as a scry engine that keeps the gas flowing every time a new artifact hits the table.

03
General Ferrous Rokiric

General Ferrous Rokiric

25.6% of decks · synergy 0.21

General Ferrous Rokiric churns out Golem tokens off multicolored spells, and Sami, Wildcat Captain converts each artifact entering play into a scry, so the deck's natural token production doubles as a filter engine.

04
Inspirit, Flagship Vessel

Inspirit, Flagship Vessel

19.9% of decks · synergy 0.17

Inspirit, Flagship Vessel builds around crewing and artifact synergies, and Sami, Wildcat Captain fits cleanly as a value piece that rewards the deck's constant stream of artifacts entering play.

05
Cayth, Famed Mechanist

Cayth, Famed Mechanist

11.9% of decks · synergy 0.09

Cayth, Famed Mechanist cares about artifacts with activated abilities, and while Sami, Wildcat Captain isn't the centerpiece there, the steady scry triggers help Cayth pilots find the specific artifacts they need faster.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Sami, Wildcat Captain is legal across every major constructed format — Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker — but the honest answer is that constructed formats have zero interest in a three-mana 2/3 with a conditional scry trigger when faster, harder-hitting artifact payoffs exist. Commander is where Sami, Wildcat Captain actually lives: 100-card singleton makes artifact density easier to sustain, the game goes long enough for repeated scry triggers to matter, and legendaries like Ragost and Alibou create shells where the trigger fires multiple times per turn cycle. In Oathbreaker the story is similar to Commander, just compressed — if your signature spell is artifact-dense, Sami can function, but the format's faster pace means the payoff is shallower.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$1.24 cheap tier

At $1.24, Sami, Wildcat Captain sits in the impulse-buy tier — cheap enough to throw in any artifact deck without a second thought. It's a new card with a clear niche, so the floor is unlikely to fall out from under it as long as artifact-heavy Commander shells remain popular.

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