Symmetry Sage
Creature — Human Wizard
Flying
Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, target creature you control has base power 2 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Strixhaven: School of Mages
- Price
- $0.14
- EDHREC rank
- #24895
Symmetry Sage sets a creature's base power to 2 on entry — a permanent on-board effect that enables power-matters synergies the moment it resolves. The cost is that it does nothing to toughness and requires you to build around it; drop it into a generic blue deck and it's a 1/3 that blanks itself.
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 |
Symmetry Sage is a Commander card in practice — the effect is too narrow for the cutthroat efficiency of Legacy or Vintage, where a 1/3 for two that doesn't affect the board immediately gets ignored. Modern and Pioneer have no meaningful shell for it; power-normalization effects don't map onto any established archetype in either format. In Commander, it earns a slot specifically in decks that care about entering-power thresholds: Alena mana generation, Hamza cost reduction, or any commander that rewards creatures entering with a specific power value. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander 60-card format where a dedicated build could exploit it, though the card still needs the right planeswalker partner to matter.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.14 bulk tier
At $0.14, Symmetry Sage is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard and postage, not the card. That price is stable because demand is narrow; it won't spike unless a new commander with a direct power-entry trigger gets printed and goes viral.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.