Tragic Poet
Creature — Human
, Sacrifice this creature: Return target enchantment card from your graveyard to your hand.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Dominaria
- Price
- $0.24
- EDHREC rank
- #16247
Tragic Poet is a 1/1 for one white mana that sacrifices itself to return an Aura from your graveyard to your hand — useful, but only in decks that treat Auras as a resource rather than a permanent investment. Outside of dedicated Aura or enchantress strategies, the effect is too narrow to justify a roster slot.
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, Tragic Poet earns its slot in Aura-heavy builds where enchantments hit the graveyard regularly through sacrifice outlets, removal, or self-mill — think Siona, Captain of the Pyleas or Bruna, Light of Alabaster shells. Elsewhere it's too conditional to compete with broader graveyard recursion. In Pauper, the commons-only card pool makes targeted Aura recursion genuinely scarce, so Tragic Poet sees real play in Bogles-adjacent lists that can't afford to lose key enchantments to bounce or kill. Legacy and Vintage move too fast for a 1/1 that trades itself for one card of hand advantage. Pioneer and Modern have enough efficient recursion that Tragic Poet rarely makes the cut unless the deck is specifically built around it.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.24 bulk tier
At $0.24, Tragic Poet is deep bulk — you'll find it in a commons box long before you need to place an order. That price is stable; there's no cross-format demand spike coming for a card this narrow, so buy a copy when you need one and don't think twice about it.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.