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The Enigma Jewel // Locus of Enlightenment

Legendary Artifact // Legendary Artifact

The Enigma Jewel enters tapped.
{T}: Add {C}{C}. Spend this mana only to activate abilities.
Craft with four or more nonlands with activated abilities {8}{U} ({8}{U}, Exile this artifact, Exile the four or more from among other permanents you control and/or cards in your graveyard: Return this card transformed under its owner's control. Craft only as a sorcery.)

CMC
1
Mana cost
{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
mythic
Set
The Lost Caverns of Ixalan
Price
$1.23
EDHREC rank
#6328
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The Enigma Jewel // Locus of Enlightenment card art
Locus of Enlightenment, the transformed back face of The Enigma Jewel // Locus of Enlightenment, lets you cast spells for free by exiling suspended cards — an effect powerful enough to warp entire game plans around it. The cost is real: you need a critical mass of suspend cards or ways to load the front face quickly, and Gogo, Master of Mimicry decks lean on it precisely because copying suspend triggers multiplies the counters removed per turn, accelerating the flip faster than any fair setup would.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Gogo, Master of Mimicry

Gogo, Master of Mimicry

68.9% of decks · synergy 0.67

Gogo, Master of Mimicry copies activated and triggered abilities, which means every counter removal trigger from The Enigma Jewel // Locus of Enlightenment gets doubled — the flip arrives turns early, and the free-cast engine comes online while opponents are still setting up.

02

Tetzin, Gnome Champion

67.6% of decks · synergy 0.66

Tetzin, Gnome Champion cares about artifacts entering and leaving play, and The Enigma Jewel // Locus of Enlightenment is an artifact on both faces — the jewel fuels Tetzin's triggered draw and bounce loops while the transformed Locus of Enlightenment provides the free-cast payoff that closes games.

03
Etrata, Deadly Fugitive

Etrata, Deadly Fugitive

17.0% of decks · synergy 0.16

Etrata, Deadly Fugitive exiles cards from opponents, and The Enigma Jewel // Locus of Enlightenment lets her crew leverage those exiled cards as suspend fodder, turning the removal plan into mana acceleration toward the Locus flip.

04
Memnarch

Memnarch

14.1% of decks · synergy 0.12

Memnarch wants every artifact on the board to eventually become his, and The Enigma Jewel // Locus of Enlightenment is an attractive steal target — grabbing it mid-charge lets Memnarch hijack an opponent's investment and close with the free-cast back face.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where The Enigma Jewel // Locus of Enlightenment does its best work — the 100-card singleton format incentivizes high-impact permanents that generate value over multiple turns, and a free-cast engine is exactly that. In Modern and Pioneer, the suspend synergy density exists but the format's pace punishes a card that asks you to spend multiple turns charging before it does anything. Legacy and Vintage have the broken suspend payoffs to make the flip lethal, but those formats also have faster, cleaner win conditions that make this a niche inclusion at best. Standard is its softest context; without a deep suspend suite, Locus of Enlightenment flips slowly and the free casts rarely generate enough tempo to matter at that card pool's power level.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

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The Enigma Jewel // Locus of EnlightenmentAphetto Alchemist

The Enigma Jewel // Locus of EnlightenmentAphetto Alchemist

Infinite untap of artifacts you control; Infinite untap of creatures you control; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce; Infinite mana artifacts you control can produce

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The Enigma Jewel // Locus of EnlightenmentVoltaic KeySol Ring

The Enigma Jewel // Locus of EnlightenmentVoltaic KeySol Ring

Infinite untap of artifacts you control; Infinite colorless mana; Infinite mana artifacts you control can produce

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Price Context

Current price

$1.23 cheap tier

At $1.23, The Enigma Jewel // Locus of Enlightenment sits in the budget-bulk tier despite being a legitimate combo engine — that price reflects its narrow archetype fit more than its ceiling. It holds value best inside dedicated suspend or Gogo, Master of Mimicry builds where it's nearly a four-of effect, but casual pickups outside those shells are unlikely to see meaningful appreciation.

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