Synchronized Spellcraft
Instant
Synchronized Spellcraft deals 4 damage to target creature and X damage to that creature's controller, where X is the number of creatures in your party. (Your party consists of up to one each of Cleric, Rogue, Warrior, and Wizard.)
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Zendikar Rising
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #27493
Synchronized Spellcraft copies a target instant or sorcery you control — twice — for four mana, effectively tripling a spell's output on the spot. That's a legitimate rate if you're casting anything with a mana value of two or more, and it's a snap-include in any deck that wants to go wide on spell effects.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Synchronized Spellcraft earns its slot in spellslinger decks that already want storm payoffs or mass-copy effects — tripling a Brainstorm is fine, tripling a Comet Storm or Peer into the Abyss ends games. In Pauper, the common-legal copy density is real competition, and four mana is a steep ask for a format with aggressive creature pressure, so it sits on the fringe. Legacy and Vintage have access to so many cheaper copy effects that Synchronized Spellcraft doesn't register. Modern and Pioneer are the middle ground: it's legal, but decks there rarely want a four-mana sorcery-speed copy effect when Twincast or Reverberate exist at two mana.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Synchronized Spellcraft is pure bulk — grab a copy without thinking about it. Bulk rares and uncommons with narrow homes don't appreciate, so treat this as a $.05 slot-filler, not a spec.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.