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
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Price
- $0.28
- EDHREC rank
- #16061
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
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
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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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.