Uvilda, Dean of Perfection // Nassari, Dean of Expression
Legendary Creature — Djinn Wizard // Legendary Creature — Efreet Shaman
: You may exile an instant or sorcery card from your hand and put three hone counters on it. It gains "At the beginning of your upkeep, if this card is exiled, remove a hone counter from it" and "When the last hone counter is removed from this card, if it's exiled, you may cast it. It costs 
less to cast this way."
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- RU
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Magic Online Promos
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #15849
Uvilda, Dean of Perfection // Nassari, Dean of Expression gives you a choice between slow-building free spells and a chaotic but explosive card-advantage engine — two genuinely different payoffs on one card. The cost is real on both sides: Uvilda demands patience over multiple turns, and Nassari hands control of your spell selection to the top of three libraries.
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 Uvilda, Dean of Perfection // Nassari, Dean of Expression sees its most play, and Nassari in particular gets elected as the commander itself in chaos-style decks that lean into casting opponents' spells. Uvilda's ability to stockpile charge counters over several turns fits the slower pace of EDH better than any 60-card format, where the game rarely survives long enough to cash in. In Pioneer, Modern, and Legacy the card is legal but largely absent — three mana for a 1/1 with a long-delayed payoff can't compete at those power levels. Oathbreaker offers a middle ground where Nassari gets picked for its signature-spell interaction, but the card still peaks in Commander.
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Price Context
Current price
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Price data isn't available in the current feed for Uvilda, Dean of Perfection // Nassari, Dean of Expression, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for a live number. As a non-mythic from a set with wide print runs, it typically sits in bulk-rare territory and is almost always worth picking up at under a dollar if you're building a chaos or spellslinger Commander list.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.