Scepter of Fugue
Artifact
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: Target player discards a card. Activate only during your turn.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Conflux
- Price
- $0.35
- EDHREC rank
- #24952
Scepter of Fugue puts a repeatable discard trigger on the table for two mana — pay one black each upkeep and your target discards a card, every single turn. The cost is real: it's slow, telegraphed, and does nothing the turn it resolves, making it a liability against fast tables.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Scepter of Fugue is a niche weapon for dedicated discard or control builds — the multiplayer environment dulls its impact since you can only aim it at one opponent per upkeep, but in a focused 1v1 lock strategy it steadily strips a hand clean. Legacy and Vintage both have access to faster, more resilient discard engines, so Scepter of Fugue rarely competes there outside of fringe Mono-Black Control shells that want redundancy over power. Oathbreaker is its best competitive home outside Commander, where the smaller deck size and targeted game plan let the slow bleed matter more quickly.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.35 bulk tier
At $0.35, Scepter of Fugue sits firmly in bulk territory — easy to pick up, easy to cut without regret. Bulk discard artifacts with narrow applications don't tend to climb, so treat it as a cheap include for themed builds rather than a hold.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.