Tolarian Emissary
Creature — Human Wizard
Kicker 
(You may pay an additional as you cast this spell.)
Flying
When this creature enters, if it was kicked, destroy target enchantment.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- UW
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Invasion
- Price
- $0.18
- EDHREC rank
- #30723
Tolarian Emissary enters and bounces a nonland permanent your opponent controls — unconditional tempo on a 1/3 body for three mana. The rate is fair but not exciting; you run it when you need a budget answer or want a repeatable bounce trigger, not as a cornerstone.
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 |
Tolarian Emissary is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but realistically only Commander gives it a home. In Legacy and Vintage, a three-mana 1/3 that bounces one permanent is nowhere near the power threshold those formats demand. Commander is where the tempo math works out — one-for-one bounce on a body is passable in a 100-card singleton environment, especially in blink or flicker shells that want repeated enters-the-battlefield triggers.
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Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.18 bulk tier
At $0.18, Tolarian Emissary is pure bulk — you're paying for cardboard and nothing else. Prices this low don't move unless something fundamentally changes the card's demand, so treat it as a grab-bag pickup rather than anything worth tracking.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.