Shrewd Negotiation
Sorcery
Exchange control of target artifact you control and target artifact or creature you don't control.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Kaladesh Remastered
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #23967
Shrewd Negotiation swaps one of your permanents for one of your opponents' — a five-mana sorcery that nets you their best threat while offloading whatever you least want to keep. It's a clunky rate, but the ceiling is stealing a commander or a game-ending artifact, which makes it worth slotting in any blue deck that can generate expendable permanents.
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 |
Shrewd Negotiation is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but the only format where it sees real play is Commander. In 60-card formats the five-mana sorcery speed is a death sentence — you need the permanent swap to close a game, and faster formats punish that kind of setup time. In Commander, the multiplayer politics angle matters: you choose which opponent to target, you can offer the deal asymmetrically, and the permanents on the table are worth stealing because opponents invest heavily in individual threats.
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Price Context
Current price
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Pricing data for Shrewd Negotiation isn't available at the moment, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the current market rate. It's a niche Commander card without a spike history, so expect a modest price floor — likely well under a dollar.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.