Twinscroll Shaman
Creature — Dwarf Shaman
Double strike
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Strixhaven: School of Mages
- Price
- $0.13
- EDHREC rank
- #23129
Twinscroll Shaman copies the next instant or sorcery you cast — once, on the turn it enters, for no additional mana. A 2/2 body for three mana that doubles a spell is a fine rate, but the trigger is a one-shot and the body is irrelevant, so it lives or dies on whether you can sequence it into something worth copying.
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, Twinscroll Shaman slots cleanly into spellslinger decks that want redundant copy effects alongside Dualcaster Mage and Reverberate — it's not the best at the job, but it's another body that doubles a spell on entry, which matters for flicker and blink packages. In Pauper, where the card is legal, the commons pool makes spell-copy effects scarcer and a 2/2 body more relevant, so it finds more competitive company there. Across Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer, it's too slow and too conditional to see serious play — formats that fast don't want a three-mana sorcery-speed copy effect stapled to a vanilla creature.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.13 bulk tier
At $0.13, Twinscroll Shaman is pure bulk — you're not paying for scarcity, you're paying for cardboard. That price is stable by definition; bulk commons and uncommons don't move unless a deck breaks them, and nothing about this card's ceiling suggests that's coming.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.