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Summoning Materia

Artifact — Equipment

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As long as this Equipment is attached to a creature, you may cast creature spells from the top of your library.
Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has vigilance and "{T}: Add {G}."
Equip {2}

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
rare
Set
Final Fantasy Commander
Price
$0.63
EDHREC rank
#7122
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Summoning Materia card art
Summoning Materia turns every creature that dies into a 1/1 token — consistently, for free, the moment it hits the board. The catch is the combo lock with Mortuary, which makes it a build-around rather than a staple, but Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER decks don't care: the token engine is exactly what that commander wants feeding its limit break.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER

Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER

48.1% of decks · synergy 0.43

Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER needs a steady stream of creatures entering and dying to charge up and swing for lethal, and Summoning Materia provides exactly that loop — every death replaces itself with a token, keeping the counters ticking without burning through your hand.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Summoning Materia is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but its home is Commander — the 100-card singleton format is where passive death-trigger engines accumulate the most value over a long game. In Legacy and Vintage it's theoretically legal but entirely absent from competitive lists; those formats move too fast for a four-mana artifact that pays off incrementally. Oathbreaker can support it in the right shell, but the card's ceiling is lowest there given the smaller starting hand size and tighter resource constraints. Play it in Commander, specifically in decks that are already killing their own creatures on purpose.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.63 bulk tier

At $0.63, Summoning Materia sits firmly in bulk territory — you're not paying a premium for power, you're paying for a niche engine that only a handful of commanders actually want. Bulk cards with narrow appeal tend to stay flat or drift lower as supply accumulates, so don't treat this as a pickup to hold; just grab a copy when you're sleeving the deck.

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