Silverquill Lecturer
Creature — Kor Wizard
Creature spells you cast have demonstrate. (Whenever you cast a creature spell, you may copy it. If you do, choose an opponent to also copy it. Each copy becomes a token.)
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Modern Horizons 3 Commander
- Price
- $0.35
- EDHREC rank
- #11559
Silverquill Lecturer enters the battlefield and immediately hands you a 1/1 flying Inkling token — a body plus a body, no hoops. In token-matters and aristocrats shells, that two-for-one baseline is exactly what Kambal, Profiteering Mayor and Charismatic Conqueror are hunting for at three mana.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Kambal, Profiteering Mayor
Kambal, Profiteering Mayor taxes opponents whenever a nontoken creature enters, then converts your own token flood into a life-drain engine — Silverquill Lecturer entering and immediately spawning an Inkling triggers that payoff twice from a single cast.
Shadrix Silverquill
Shadrix Silverquill rewards you for going wide with small flyers, and Silverquill Lecturer delivers two bodies with evasion in one card, keeping the token count climbing toward Shadrix's combat-damage threat.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Silverquill Lecturer is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but its home is squarely Commander. In 60-card Legacy and Vintage, a three-mana 2/2 that makes a 1/1 has no competitive footing — those formats demand far more efficiency. Commander is where the card lives: token synergies, aristocrats payoffs, and enter-the-battlefield doubling effects make the built-in token matter, and multiplayer pacing gives you time to leverage the second body.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Charismatic ConquerorSilverquill Lecturer
Infinite ETB; Infinite creature tokens; Infinite ETB for target opponent; Infinite creature tokens for target opponent
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Silverquill LecturerPhage the Untouchable
Win the game; Target player loses the game
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Current price
$0.35 bulk tier
At $0.35, Silverquill Lecturer sits firmly in bulk territory — easy to acquire, easy to cut without financial pain. Bulk commons and uncommons at this price point rarely spike unless a new commander prints demand, so treat it as an inexpensive role-player rather than a long-term hold.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.