Savanti Romero, Time's Exile

Legendary Creature — Demon Wizard

Trample
At the beginning of combat on your turn, put a +1/+1 counter on Savanti Romero. Then you draw X cards and lose X life, where X is the number of counters on Savanti Romero.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{3}{B}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
rare
Set
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Price
$0.28
EDHREC rank
#16061
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Savanti Romero, Time's Exile card art
Savanti Romero, Time's Exile locks an opponent's commander in the command zone as a repeatable triggered ability — every time that commander would leave the battlefield, it gets exiled to the command zone instead, denying the usual recursive loop. The cost is that you're dedicating a card slot to a narrow hate piece that does nothing against decks not built around a single powerful commander.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander
legacy
modern
pioneer
standard
vintage
pauper
oathbreaker

Commander is the only format where Savanti Romero, Time's Exile does anything meaningful — the design is explicitly parasitic on the command zone rule, so it reads as a blank in Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, and Standard where commanders don't exist. In EDH, the play pattern is surgical: you slam it to neutralize a problematic commander and force your opponent to recast from the command zone at escalating costs, but it only targets one player and has no secondary function once that threat is handled. Oathbreaker is the one other format where the card has teeth, since planeswalker commanders are equally susceptible to the same lock.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.28 bulk tier

At $0.28, Savanti Romero, Time's Exile sits firmly in bulk territory, which tracks for a card with such a narrow application. Bulk commander hate pieces rarely hold value unless they see broad cross-archetype play, and this one doesn't — expect the price to stay flat.

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