Silverquill Pledgemage
Creature — Vampire Cleric
Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, this creature gains your choice of flying or lifelink until end of turn.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BW
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Strixhaven: School of Mages
- Price
- $0.11
- EDHREC rank
- #25266
Silverquill Pledgemage enters as a 2/2 with a magecraft trigger that pumps it +1/+1 whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery — solid ceiling for a three-mana creature in spell-heavy builds. The cost is that it does nothing without spells firing, making it a blank threat in slower or creature-based metas.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Silverquill Pledgemage is a pauper-legal common, and that's the format where it has the most realistic footing — spell-heavy Orzhov or white-black tempo shells can trigger magecraft repeatedly in a single turn and close games with an oversized body. In Commander, it competes for a slot in spellslinger decks that already have better magecraft payoffs at common and uncommon, so it rarely makes the final 99 unless the commander specifically rewards creature-based magecraft synergies. Modern, Pioneer, Legacy, and Vintage all offer faster, more resilient threats, and Silverquill Pledgemage doesn't clear the bar in any of them. It's a functional Limited card that found a narrow niche in Pauper and almost nowhere else.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.11 bulk tier
At $0.11, Silverquill Pledgemage is deep bulk — buy a playset without thinking twice. Don't expect the price to move; it's a common with narrow competitive appeal and no scarcity story.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.