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Scornful Egotist

Creature — Human Wizard

Morph {U} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

CMC
8
Mana cost
{7}{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
common
Set
Scourge
Price
$0.09
EDHREC rank
#27763
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Scornful Egotist card art
Scornful Egotist is a 1/1 for eight mana on-board — unplayable by any normal measure — but Morph lets you put it face-down for three and flip it up for one, making its printed mana cost the entire point. In decks built around Missy or any commander that cares about high-cost creatures, that eight-mana number is the card's whole identity.

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 legal
oathbreaker legal

Scornful Egotist is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but it sees virtually no play outside Commander, where specific commanders make its inflated mana cost a feature rather than a flaw. In Pauper it's technically castable but offers nothing a fair deck wants. Legacy and Vintage have zero interest — the Morph shell doesn't exist there at a competitive level. Commander is the only format where Scornful Egotist earns a slot, and even there it's a narrow role-player rather than a staple.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.09 bulk tier

At $0.09, Scornful Egotist is deep bulk — you're not buying it for value, you're buying it because the deck demands it. It's unlikely to appreciate meaningfully; pick up a copy if you need it and don't think twice about the price.

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