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Savvy Trader

Creature — Human Citizen

When this creature enters, exile target permanent card from your graveyard. You may play that card for as long as it remains exiled.
Spells you cast from anywhere other than your hand cost {1} less to cast.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{3}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
rare
Set
Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander
Price
$3.84
EDHREC rank
#4000
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Savvy Trader card art
Savvy Trader turns every artifact, enchantment, and planeswalker you cast into a discount on the next one — stack that effect a few times and expensive payoffs like Sensei's Divining Top land for free. Gonti, Canny Acquisitor decks run it in nearly 70% of builds because the counter accumulation is relentless once the engine is moving.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Gonti, Canny Acquisitor

Gonti, Canny Acquisitor

69.5% of decks · synergy 0.66

Gonti, Canny Acquisitor's triggered ability generates a constant stream of permanents from opponents' libraries, and Savvy Trader converts every artifact or enchantment in that stream into a cost reduction, compounding so fast that expensive spells become effectively free within a few turns.

02
Kellan, the Kid

Kellan, the Kid

57.4% of decks · synergy 0.56

Kellan, the Kid cares about casting noncreature spells from exile and reward loops, and Savvy Trader slots in as a cost-reduction engine that makes chaining those spells back-to-back increasingly cheap.

04
Rocco, Street Chef

Rocco, Street Chef

36.4% of decks · synergy 0.35

Rocco, Street Chef runs a food-and-artifact-token strategy that naturally floods the board with artifact triggers, giving Savvy Trader a steady stream of activations to accumulate cost reductions.

05
Faldorn, Dread Wolf Herald

Faldorn, Dread Wolf Herald

35.7% of decks · synergy 0.35

Faldorn, Dread Wolf Herald casts cards from exile at a high rate, and Savvy Trader rewards that volume by shaving mana off every artifact and enchantment in the chain — turning a go-wide wolf plan into an incidental cost-reduction engine.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where Savvy Trader actually matters — games go long enough for the counter accumulation to reach critical mass, and the format's density of artifact and enchantment payoffs gives it constant fuel. Legacy and Vintage allow it, but neither format has any interest: the game is over before the counters become relevant, and neither format needs this effect. Oathbreaker is a theoretical fit given the faster-paced but still multiplayer structure, though the card sees minimal play there in practice.

Key Combos

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Price Context

Current price

$3.84 cheap tier

At $3.84, Savvy Trader sits in the budget-friendly tier for a card with real mechanical upside in its target strategies. Given its high inclusion rate in Gonti, Canny Acquisitor builds and crossover appeal in several other exile-and-cast commanders, that price is unlikely to drop — it earns its slot too consistently.

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