Shared Summons
Instant
Search your library for up to two creature cards with different names, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $1.13
- EDHREC rank
- #3889
Shared Summons puts two creatures directly into your hand for five mana — instant speed, no restrictions on type or cost, just any two creatures in your library. In a format where a single tutor is often enough to assemble a win, getting two at once makes Selvala, Heart of the Wilds and her combo pieces far easier to chain together.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
Selvala, Heart of the Wilds runs Shared Summons because fetching two large creatures at instant speed — say, a fatty to spike Selvala's power-draw trigger and a payoff to close the game — turns one card into a full engine assembly.
Marwyn, the Nurturer
Marwyn, the Nurturer wants every elf it can find, and Shared Summons grabs two simultaneously at instant speed, letting you set up the exact pair needed to go infinite with Marwyn on the following turn.
Animar, Soul of Elements
Animar, Soul of Elements scales so hard off creature count that Shared Summons essentially replaces itself twice over, fetching the morphs or high-power creatures that make Animar's cost reduction spiral out of control.
Ashaya, Soul of the Wild
Ashaya, Soul of the Wild turns every creature into a land, so Shared Summons finding two creatures at once is also finding two untapped forests — the card generates both board presence and mana acceleration in the same action.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Shared Summons is legal across Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it's almost exclusively a Commander card in practice. Five mana at instant speed is simply too slow for Legacy or Vintage, where the game is often decided before turn three, and Modern creature toolboxes prefer cheaper, more redundant search effects. In Oathbreaker it's playable in the same big-green shells that use it in Commander. Commander is where Shared Summons earns its slot: the longer game and singleton construction mean assembling a two-card creature package at end of an opponent's turn is genuinely powerful, and the instant speed lets you hold mana up reactively before committing.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$1.13 cheap tier
At $1.13, Shared Summons sits in the cheap tier — it's an easy inclusion from a budget standpoint, and that price reflects steady casual demand rather than competitive scarcity. It's unlikely to spike dramatically, but it won't drop further either; creature-based Commander decks will keep absorbing copies at this price.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.