Transpose
Instant
Draw a card, then discard a card. You lose 1 life. If this spell was cast from your hand, create a 0/1 black Wizard creature token with "Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this token deals 1 damage to each opponent."
Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Final Fantasy Commander
- Price
- $1.56
- EDHREC rank
- #3113
Transpose swaps your hand for your graveyard — an explosive reload when your discard-matters engine is running and your hand is empty. Kuja, Genome Sorcerer runs it at a near-80% rate because the effect is uniquely suited to commanders who want cards in the graveyard and cards in hand simultaneously, and no other spell does exactly this.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Kuja, Genome Sorcerer
Kuja, Genome Sorcerer runs Transpose in nearly 80% of builds because Kuja wants a stocked graveyard and a fresh hand at the same time — Transpose delivers both in a single spell, effectively resetting the resource loop mid-game.
Y'shtola, Night's Blessed
Y'shtola, Night's Blessed cares about instants and sorceries leaving the graveyard, so Transpose pulling a full hand of spells out of the bin reloads both the hand and the engine that Y'shtola's ability feeds on.
Black Waltz No. 3
Black Waltz No. 3 decks pitch spells aggressively, and Transpose converts that discarded pile back into live action while simultaneously fueling the graveyard with whatever you were holding.
G'raha Tia, Scion Reborn
G'raha Tia, Scion Reborn rewards playing from the graveyard, so Transpose acts as both a refill and a setup piece — putting the right cards in the bin for G'raha Tia to leverage later.
Inalla, Archmage Ritualist
Inalla, Archmage Ritualist decks run Transpose as a surprise hand reload when the wizard package exhausts itself, letting you cycle through the deck's best pieces a second time.
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 |
Commander is the primary home for Transpose — the single-copy rule makes the graveyard a meaningful second hand, and the longer game gives you time to fill the bin before firing it off. Legacy and Vintage allow it, but the effect is too slow and situational to compete in those formats where graveyards are either irrelevant or immediately disrupted. Oathbreaker is a reasonable secondary context, especially in two-color spellslinger builds that mirror what Kuja, Genome Sorcerer is doing at larger tables.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$1.56 cheap tier
At $1.56, Transpose sits comfortably in the cheap tier — easy to slot into any graveyard-matters build without budget friction. Given how narrowly the effect is played (almost entirely in Kuja lists), the price reflects steady casual demand rather than spike potential, so it's unlikely to move dramatically in either direction.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.