Sanar, Innovative First-Year
Legendary Creature — Goblin Sorcerer
Vivid — At the beginning of your first main phase, reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal X nonland cards, where X is the number of colors among permanents you control. For each of those colors, you may exile a card of that color from among the revealed cards. Then shuffle. You may cast the exiled cards this turn.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- RU
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Lorwyn Eclipsed
- Price
- $0.30
- EDHREC rank
- #18561
Sanar, Innovative First-Year is a card-advantage engine that rewards you for casting spells with different mana values in the same turn — the payoff is real, but it asks you to build around the condition rather than just slot it in anywhere. If your deck already chains low-cost spells across a range of costs, Sanar pulls ahead fast; if it doesn't, the trigger rarely fires.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Sanar, Innovative First-Year fits best in spell-dense Izzet or Temur builds that naturally spread across the mana curve in a single turn — storm-adjacent lists and cantrip-heavy spellslinger decks get the most mileage. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer, the three-mana 1/4 body is a real liability; the effect needs to fire multiple times in a game to justify that slot against a field of faster, more consistent threats. Standard is the most hospitable non-Commander environment, where the card-advantage trigger is genuinely impactful and three mana is less punishing. Legacy and Vintage have too many cheaper, more explosive options to give Sanar, Innovative First-Year serious consideration.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.30 bulk tier
At $0.30, Sanar, Innovative First-Year is firmly bulk — easy to pick up, easy to cut without regret. Bulk rares with narrow build-around conditions don't typically appreciate unless a top-tier deck adopts them, so treat this as a low-risk experiment rather than a long-term hold.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.