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Sapphire Medallion

Artifact

Blue spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{2}
Color identity
C
Rarity
rare
Set
Commander Masters
Price
$6.12
EDHREC rank
#390
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Sapphire Medallion card art
Sapphire Medallion shaves one generic mana off every blue spell you cast — that's not a minor discount in a format where spell-dense commanders like Orvar, the All-Form chain copies off cheap instants, or Grand Arbiter Augustin IV is already taxing opponents while you slide under the curve. At two mana with no upkeep cost, it pays for itself within a turn or two and never stops working.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Grand Arbiter Augustin IV

Grand Arbiter Augustin IV

30.8% of decks · synergy 0.22

Grand Arbiter Augustin IV is already taxing your opponents' spells; Sapphire Medallion widens that gap by cheapening your own blue interaction, letting you hold up counterspells and card draw on mana you'd otherwise spend developing your board.

02
Y'shtola Rhul

Y'shtola Rhul

81.6% of decks · synergy 0.22

Y'shtola Rhul rewards casting spells on each player's turn, and Sapphire Medallion makes the blue instants fueling that engine cheaper — more spells per mana means more triggers, more often.

03
Prismari, the Inspiration

Prismari, the Inspiration

28.4% of decks · synergy 0.20

Prismari, the Inspiration cares about the mana value of the instants and sorceries you cast, so every reduction Sapphire Medallion provides still counts toward the damage trigger while keeping your mana open for the next spell.

04

Runo Stromkirk

27.9% of decks · synergy 0.20

Runo Stromkirk wants you casting creatures to trigger the flip condition, and Sapphire Medallion makes your blue sea-creature spells cheaper — accelerating the clock on flipping and keeping your curve smooth in a high-CMC shell.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where Sapphire Medallion lives — blue is the deepest color in the format, games go long enough that the cumulative savings add up to several extra spells over a game, and it slots into any mono-blue or blue-heavy deck without a second thought. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but functionally irrelevant; those formats move too fast for a two-mana do-nothing artifact that requires you to cast spells to generate value. Oathbreaker is a reasonable home for the same reasons Commander is, particularly in blue planeswalker shells that lean on cheap instants and sorceries.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

If Sapphire Medallion is out of reach, Baral, Chief of Compliance offers the same one-generic reduction on instants and sorceries while also looting when your counterspells counter something — though it's a creature and dies to removal. Semblance Anvil can go deeper on cost reduction but requires exiling a card to imprint, making it a real cost Sapphire Medallion simply doesn't ask you to pay.

Price Context

Current price

$6.12 mid tier

At $6.12, Sapphire Medallion sits in a comfortable mid-tier range — meaningful enough to feel like a real purchase, cheap enough that it belongs in any blue deck that can use it without budget guilt. It's seen enough reprints to stay accessible, and demand from mono-blue Commander staples keeps a floor under it.

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