Step Right Up
Sorcery
Open two Attractions. (Put the top two cards of your Attraction deck onto the battlefield.)
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Unfinity
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #13264
Step Right Up hands you a free Treasure and a free Hunt counter the moment it resolves, then staples a repeatable loot-and-grow engine to your commander for the rest of the game — all for one generic mana. It is the single best target for The Most Dangerous Gamer's venture trigger, and it isn't close.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | banned |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | banned |
| pauper | banned |
| oathbreaker | banned |
Step Right Up is banned in Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, and not legal anywhere else except Commander — that sweep reflects four real restrictions the card carries: it only functions when attached to a commander, it requires that commander to deal combat damage to a player, it demands a dungeon venture trigger to fire, and the whole engine collapses if the commander dies or gets tucked. Commander gives it a pass because the singleton format's slower clock and multiplayer life totals make the setup cost acceptable, and the commander-centric rules text is a feature, not a bug, in a format built around legendary creatures.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
The Most Dangerous Gamer
The Most Dangerous Gamer's ability already ventures into the dungeon on combat damage, so Step Right Up doesn't ask it to do anything new — it just doubles the payoff on an effect the commander was going to trigger anyway, turning every swing into a Treasure, a card, and a +1/+1 counter on top of the existing dungeon progress.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data for Step Right Up isn't currently available, so check Scryfall or your preferred retailer for the current market rate. Given its near-total exclusivity to The Most Dangerous Gamer decks and an 85% inclusion rate in that archetype, demand is real but narrow — expect the price to track that commander's popularity directly.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.