Trickster Mage
Creature — Human Spellshaper
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, Discard a card: You may tap or untap target artifact, creature, or land.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Nemesis
- Price
- $0.19
- EDHREC rank
- #21662
Trickster Mage taps any target artifact or creature at instant speed for two mana, a repeatable effect that stacks up fast in the right shell. The cost is the body — a 1/1 for two that contributes nothing on its own and demands a build that rewards tap effects to justify the slot.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Trickster Mage earns its slot almost exclusively in tap-synergy decks — think Merfolk Wizard tribal or untap-value engines where every activation compounds. Legacy and Vintage have no interest in a 1/1 that taps things when interaction is far more efficient and abundant. Pauper is the one competitive format where Trickster Mage is technically legal and occasionally surfaces in fringe Wizard builds, but it rarely makes cuts there either. Outside of Commander tap-abuse, treat it as a bulk card with a narrow job description.
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Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.19 bulk tier
At $0.19, Trickster Mage is pure bulk — the kind of card you pick up as a throw-in and never think twice about the price. That price is stable because demand is narrow and supply is abundant; don't expect movement in either direction.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.