Steal the Show
Sorcery
Choose one or both —
• Target player discards any number of cards, then draws that many cards.
• Steal the Show deals damage equal to the number of instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard to target creature or planeswalker.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Secrets of Strixhaven
- Price
- $0.43
- EDHREC rank
- #15878
Steal the Show replaces itself, lets you discard to hand size without losing cards, and produces a copy of any instant or sorcery on the stack — all on one card. For Rielle, the Everwise, every discard is a free draw, which means Steal the Show's discard-then-loot effect snowballs immediately into more gas.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Rielle, the Everwise
Rielle, the Everwise turns every discard from Steal the Show into a free draw, so the looting effect doesn't cost you a card — it nets one, then copies a spell on top of it.
Riku of Many Paths
Riku of Many Paths wants instants and sorceries to recur and amplify, and Steal the Show's built-in copy effect stacks directly with Riku's own doubling ability for two copies off one card.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Steal the Show earns its slot in any Izzet or spellslinger shell that wants tempo plays on other players' turns — copying a haymaker on the stack while cycling into your next threat is a real two-for-one. Competitive non-rotating formats like Legacy and Modern have tighter bars for blue spells, and Steal the Show competes against Fork effects and Twincast variants that cost less or scale better in faster games. Pioneer and Standard are the more realistic homes outside Commander, where the combination of looting and copying on one card can be legitimately hard to evaluate at instant speed. Pauper is the only format where it's not legal.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.43 bulk tier
At $0.43, Steal the Show is firmly bulk, and that price reflects its current supply rather than any ceiling on demand. It holds bulk value as long as it sees casual Commander play, but there's no reason to buy more than you need.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.