Three Wishes
Instant
Exile the top three cards of your library face down. You may look at those cards for as long as they remain exiled. Until your next turn, you may play those cards. At the beginning of your next upkeep, put any of those cards you didn't play into your graveyard.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Visions
- Price
- $4.09
- EDHREC rank
- #25988
Three Wishes exiles the top three cards of your library and lets you play them this turn and next — three cards of immediate access for three mana at instant speed. The exile-instead-of-draw rider means you lose any cards you don't cast, so it rewards dense, low-curve shells and punishes slow hands.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Three Wishes slots into spellslinger and storm shells that can reliably deploy two or three cards off the top in a single turn — the exile window spanning two turns does provide a buffer, but you want redundancy-heavy lists where whiffing on one card isn't fatal. Legacy and Vintage both have access to it, but neither format has reason to run it over Brainstorm, Ponder, or Ancestral Recall, which give more control for less or the same mana with no exile downside. Three Wishes is locked out of Modern, Pioneer, Standard, and Pauper, so Commander and Oathbreaker are its real homes, and Oathbreaker in particular rewards the instant-speed access when your signature spell is already filling a similar role.
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Price Context
Current price
$4.09 cheap tier
At $4.09, Three Wishes sits at the low end of the casual Commander market — cheap enough to slot in without budget anxiety. It's a low-reprint niche card, so the price is stable rather than declining, but don't expect it to climb either.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.