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Stenn, Paranoid Partisan

Legendary Creature — Human Wizard

As Stenn enters, choose a card type other than creature or land.
Spells you cast of the chosen type cost {1} less to cast.
{1}{W}{U}: Exile Stenn. Return it to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{W}{U}
Color identity
UW
Rarity
rare
Set
Dominaria United
Price
$0.34
EDHREC rank
#7344
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Stenn, Paranoid Partisan card art
Stenn, Paranoid Partisan cuts the cost of an entire chosen card type by one mana for as long as he's in play — that's a repeating cost reduction stapled to a two-mana body, which is the kind of effect decks pay steep prices to access. The catch is that he names a type on ETB, so if your opponents remove him and you recast, you're locking in another discount but also telegraphing your hand; despite that, Stenn is a staple in spell-heavy shells and shows up alongside artifacts like Sensei's Divining Top and in multicolored blades builds like Zethi, Arcane Blademaster.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Zethi, Arcane Blademaster

Zethi, Arcane Blademaster

36.3% of decks · synergy 0.33

Zethi, Arcane Blademaster cares deeply about instants, and Stenn, Paranoid Partisan naming instant makes every spell Zethi copies off her imprint chains one mana cheaper — that's a real clock compression in a deck already trying to chain spells.

02
Zur, Eternal Schemer

Zur, Eternal Schemer

34.3% of decks · synergy 0.33

Zur, Eternal Schemer builds around enchantments, and Stenn, Paranoid Partisan naming enchantment knocks a mana off every piece of interaction and every aura Zur animates, letting the deck deploy threats and answers in the same turn cycle.

03
Urza, Lord Protector

Urza, Lord Protector

16.5% of decks · synergy 0.14

Urza, Lord Protector already reduces spell costs and can meld with Mishra; Stenn, Paranoid Partisan naming artifact or instant stacks another layer of cost reduction on top, making the deck's artifact-heavy package land aggressively ahead of curve.

04
Eriette, the Beguiler

Eriette, the Beguiler

13.3% of decks · synergy 0.12

Eriette, the Beguiler wins through a dense grid of enchantments on opponents' creatures, and Stenn, Paranoid Partisan naming enchantment directly accelerates how quickly that grid comes together.

05
Katilda and Lier

Katilda and Lier

11.9% of decks · synergy 0.12

Katilda and Lier's engine runs on instants and sorceries, and Stenn, Paranoid Partisan naming either half of that removes the tax that slows down the turn Katilda and Lier tries to go off.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Stenn, Paranoid Partisan is most impactful — a two-mana creature that permanently discounts a card type is exactly the kind of incremental advantage that compounds over a long game, and Commander games are long. In Legacy and Vintage, the formats are too fast and the competition for two-mana slots too fierce; Stenn isn't doing anything broken, and nobody in those formats is building around cost-reduction creatures with no other relevant text. Modern and Pioneer are similar — Stenn is legal but has essentially no competitive footprint, since neither format gives him a natural home. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander 60-card variant worth noting: spell-focused oathbreaker builds with a cheap signature spell can extract real value from the discount, especially if the signature spell matches the named type.

Key Combos

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Price Context

Current price

$0.34 bulk tier

At $0.34, Stenn, Paranoid Partisan is true bulk — easy to pick up in any order without thinking about cost. The price reflects modest demand outside Commander rather than weakness in the format where he actually sees play, so there's no meaningful financial risk in buying a copy.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.