Trophy Mage
Creature — Human Wizard
When this creature enters, you may search your library for an artifact card with mana value 3, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Kaladesh Remastered
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #2276
Trophy Mage enters the battlefield and immediately fetches any artifact with mana value exactly 3 — that's the whole game, and it's good enough to justify the three-mana body. In artifact-heavy Commander decks like Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy, it functions as a redundant copy of whatever engine piece you most need to assemble.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy
Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy runs a dense package of three-mana mana rocks — Basalt Monolith chief among them — and Trophy Mage finds whichever one is missing to push the mana engine online.
Memnarch
Memnarch needs blue mana in volume, and Trophy Mage tutors the three-mana rocks that generate it; it also finds Basalt Monolith as part of the infinite-mana lines the deck relies on.
Tetsuo, Imperial Champion
Tetsuo, Imperial Champion's kill condition hinges on equipping specific three-mana equipment, and Trophy Mage searches up whichever piece is missing to set up the one-shot.
Emry, Lurker of the Loch
Emry, Lurker of the Loch wants artifacts in the graveyard and on the battlefield simultaneously, and Trophy Mage bridges the gap by tutoring a three-mana artifact directly into play — or at minimum into a hand Emry can then recur.
Urza, Prince of Kroog
Urza, Prince of Kroog cares about having artifacts in play to copy and animate, and Trophy Mage slots in as a flexible tutor that doubles as an artifact body for the count.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Trophy Mage earns its keep — a singleton format that constantly leaves you one artifact short of an engine means a tutor stapled to a creature body is real value. In Legacy and Vintage the competition from zero-mana artifact tutors makes it unplayable outside fringe brews. Modern and Pioneer have the raw legality but lack the artifact-combo density and the slower pace that makes Trophy Mage's three-mana investment tolerable. Oathbreaker mirrors Commander closely enough that the same artifact-heavy shells want it for the same reasons.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Current price data for Trophy Mage isn't available in this listing, so check Scryfall or your preferred retailer for up-to-date numbers. Given its narrow tutor restriction and widespread reprint history, it has historically sat in budget territory — worth picking up as a cheap role-player rather than a spec.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.