Summoner's Egg
Artifact Creature — Egg
Imprint — When this creature enters, you may exile a card from your hand face down.
When this creature dies, turn the exiled card face up. If it's a creature card, put it onto the battlefield under your control.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Fifth Dawn
- Price
- $4.03
- EDHREC rank
- #15070
Summoner's Egg puts a massive creature into play the turn it dies — no mana required, no casting restrictions, just a free drop from exile. The four-mana artifact body is a real cost, but in any deck that wants a specific bomb on the table with haste already covered, the delay is worth it.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Herigast, Erupting Nullkite
Herigast, Erupting Nullkite already demands you exile a creature to reduce its own cost, and Summoner's Egg slots directly into that loop — imprint Herigast under the Egg, crack it, and the Nullkite hits the table for free with its triggered ability ready to fire.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Summoner's Egg is a Commander card through and through — the payoff requires a specific target to imprint, a patient setup window, and opponents willing to attack into a 0/4, all conditions that Commander's slower pace provides. In Legacy and Vintage, four mana for a 0/4 that doesn't immediately affect the board is close to unplayable; those formats end before the Egg ever hatches. Oathbreaker functions similarly to Commander here, and the Egg can work in a dedicated cheat-into-play shell, but the smaller starting life total and faster game speed make it a fringe option at best.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$4.03 cheap tier
At $4.03, Summoner's Egg sits in budget-rare territory — enough to signal genuine demand without pricing out casual players. It's a niche card with a narrow home, so the price is unlikely to move much unless a new Commander gives it a breakout role.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Herigast, Erupting Nullkite
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.