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Ugin, the Ineffable

Legendary Planeswalker — Ugin

Colorless spells you cast cost {2} less to cast.
+1: Exile the top card of your library face down and look at it. Create a 2/2 colorless Spirit creature token. When that token leaves the battlefield, put the exiled card into your hand.
−3: Destroy target permanent that's one or more colors.

CMC
6
Mana cost
{6}
Color identity
C
Rarity
rare
Set
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Price
—
EDHREC rank
#1003
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Ugin, the Ineffable card art
Ugin, the Ineffable cuts the cost of every colorless spell by two and replaces each one you cast with a free 2/2, making him a one-card value engine that snowballs the moment he hits the board. The six-mana price tag is real, but in any deck that leans on colorless permanents — including top-of-library manipulators like Sensei's Divining Top — he pays it back immediately and keeps paying.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Ulalek, Fused Atrocity

Ulalek, Fused Atrocity

76.7% of decks · synergy 0.71

Ulalek, Fused Atrocity runs an Eldrazi-heavy list where Ugin, the Ineffable's cost reduction stacks with other discount effects, shaving two off every colorless titan and generating a stream of tokens from every cast trigger — which matters a lot when Ulalek is copying those triggers.

02
Yarus, Roar of the Old Gods

Yarus, Roar of the Old Gods

47.6% of decks · synergy 0.47

Yarus, Roar of the Old Gods wants as many permanents entering with haste as possible, and Ugin, the Ineffable's 2/2 token generation on each colorless cast gives the deck a reliable supply of bodies that immediately benefit from Yarus's haste-grant and attack payoffs.

03
Belbe, Corrupted Observer

Belbe, Corrupted Observer

45.7% of decks · synergy 0.45

Belbe, Corrupted Observer needs to deal damage to each opponent quickly to generate explosive amounts of mana, and Ugin, the Ineffable delivers a stream of hasty-eligible 2/2 colorless tokens while reducing the cost of the big payoffs Belbe's mana is meant to fuel.

04
Kaust, Eyes of the Glade

Kaust, Eyes of the Glade

41.0% of decks · synergy 0.41

Kaust, Eyes of the Glade cares about colorless permanents entering the battlefield, and Ugin, the Ineffable is one of the densest sources of repeated colorless ETB triggers available — every spell cast off Ugin's discount drops another token that Kaust can exploit.

05
Kadena, Slinking Sorcerer

Kadena, Slinking Sorcerer

39.0% of decks · synergy 0.38

Kadena, Slinking Sorcerer lists that splash colorless morphs use Ugin, the Ineffable to cut the cost of face-down creatures, effectively making Ugin a morph-cost reducer that also rewards the high volume of colorless casts those decks generate.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where Ugin, the Ineffable lives — the format's slower pace lets you deploy a six-mana planeswalker without immediately losing the game, and the density of colorless staples in EDH means the cost reduction applies to something almost every turn. In Legacy and Vintage, six mana is a prohibitive ask when faster threats exist and the colorless-synergy density needed to justify the slot rarely comes together. Modern and Pioneer are the same story: Ugin, the Ineffable is legal in both but effectively absent, outclassed by cheaper threats and lacking the tribal or colorless-matters shell that makes the card sing. Oathbreaker is genuinely interesting if you're building around a colorless signature spell — the cost reduction applies to the signature spell itself, which can create absurd repetition.

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Price Context

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Current pricing data for Ugin, the Ineffable isn't available in our feed, so check Scryfall or your preferred retailer for the live number. Given its age, multiple printings, and strong Commander demand, it has historically sat in the $5–10 range — a reasonable pickup for any colorless-heavy build.

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