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Ugin's Mastery

Enchantment

Whenever you cast a colorless creature spell, manifest the top card of your library. (Put it onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)
Whenever you attack with creatures with total power 6 or greater, you may turn a face-down creature you control face up.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{4}
Color identity
C
Rarity
rare
Set
Commander Masters
Price
$0.88
EDHREC rank
#4311
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Ugin's Mastery card art
Ugin's Mastery puts every creature you control face-down, makes them 2/2s, then gives them ward 2 and the ability to manifest future cards off the top — that's a full board of protected, self-replacing threats for five mana. Commanders like Pearl-Ear, Imperial Advisor and Kaust, Eyes of the Glade are already built around face-down creatures, so this enchantment isn't a cute inclusion, it's a load-bearing piece.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Kaust, Eyes of the Glade

Kaust, Eyes of the Glade

86.3% of decks · synergy 0.86

Kaust, Eyes of the Glade cares about creatures being turned face-up, and Ugin's Mastery hands her an entire board of face-down creatures plus a continuous supply of new ones — every manifest trigger is a potential Kaust payoff waiting to flip.

02
Yarus, Roar of the Old Gods

Yarus, Roar of the Old Gods

82.7% of decks · synergy 0.82

Yarus, Roar of the Old Gods rewards running large creatures, and Ugin's Mastery turns those same threats into protected 2/2s that rebuild your board while keeping the pieces in play; the manifest engine ensures Yarus always has something to threaten with.

03
Kadena, Slinking Sorcerer

Kadena, Slinking Sorcerer

60.1% of decks · synergy 0.59

Kadena, Slinking Sorcerer draws a card the first time a face-down creature enters each turn, so the manifest trigger from Ugin's Mastery translates directly into free card draw every combat step.

04
Omarthis, Ghostfire Initiate

Omarthis, Ghostfire Initiate

73.2% of decks · synergy 0.53

Omarthis, Ghostfire Initiate accumulates +1/+1 counters from colorless spells and abilities, and Ugin's Mastery — a colorless enchantment that produces colorless face-down creatures — feeds that engine naturally while locking down the board with ward 2.

05
Vannifar, Evolved Enigma

Vannifar, Evolved Enigma

34.4% of decks · synergy 0.34

Vannifar, Evolved Enigma has built-in synergy with disguise creatures, so the face-down tokens Ugin's Mastery produces slot directly into her cost-reduction and payoff package.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Ugin's Mastery is a Commander card through and through — the density of face-down and morph synergies in that format gives it genuine structural roles, and five mana for a persistent manifest engine is a reasonable ask over a 100-card game. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but irrelevant; five mana enchantments that don't win the game immediately have no place in those formats. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander 60-card-adjacent format where a specific Ugin planeswalker signature spell shell could theoretically house it, though the overlap is narrow.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.88 bulk tier

At $0.88, Ugin's Mastery is firmly bulk, which is accurate for a card with niche but real demand concentrated in a handful of Commander archetypes. It's unlikely to climb without a significant surge in morph and manifest commander popularity, but at under a dollar it's an easy pickup for any deck that wants it.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.