Sultai Charm
Instant
Choose one —
• Destroy target monocolored creature.
• Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
• Draw two cards, then discard a card.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BGU
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Magic Online Promos
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #4739
Sultai Charm is a three-mana modal spell that destroys a nonbasic land, kills a monocolored creature, or mills three and draws a card — three genuinely useful modes on one card. In a Kadena, Slinking Sorcerer deck, the draw mode doubles as a morphs-fuel engine, but three mana for any single effect is a real cost that limits it in faster pods.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Kadena, Slinking Sorcerer
Kadena, Slinking Sorcerer's engine runs on face-down creatures and card advantage, and Sultai Charm's mill-three-draw-one mode slots cleanly into that flow while keeping the nonbasic removal and creature kill as live backup options. Over a quarter of Kadena decks run it, which reflects how rarely a three-mode spell has all three modes be relevant in the same archetype.
The Mimeoplasm
The Mimeoplasm wants the graveyard stocked, and Sultai Charm's mill mode contributes to that setup at instant speed while the nonbasic destruction and creature removal cover the gaps that a graveyard-focused deck can otherwise leave open. It's utility-plus-enabler on one card, which is exactly what The Mimeoplasm shells are looking for.
Damia, Sage of Stone
Damia, Sage of Stone refills your hand every upkeep, so spending cards on interaction is low-risk, and Sultai Charm's three distinct answers mean it's almost never a dead draw. The nonbasic land destruction mode is particularly sharp here — Damia games run long, and punishing greedy manabases compounds over time.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Sultai Charm is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but its real home is Commander. In sixty-card formats the three-mana modal spell ceiling is high — you're competing against cheaper, more focused interaction, and no single mode on Sultai Charm is format-warping enough to justify the slot. Commander is where modal versatility pays off: you have one copy, games run long, and hitting a nonbasic, a problem creature, or topping off your hand off a single card is genuinely powerful. In Oathbreaker the same logic applies at a smaller scale, though the faster average game speed cuts into the value of the draw mode.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
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Current pricing data for Sultai Charm isn't available in this context — check Scryfall or your preferred marketplace for a live number. Historically it's been a bulk rare, so if you're in a Sultai Commander deck that wants flexible interaction, it's almost certainly a low-cost pickup worth grabbing without much deliberation.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Kadena, Slinking Sorcerer
- The Mimeoplasm
- Damia, Sage of Stone
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.