Is Vedalken Aethermage good in Commander?

Vedalken Aethermage in Commander — Combos, Decks & Price

Vedalken Aethermage tutors any Wizard directly to hand for two mana with Wizardcycling — repeatable if you can recur it, and it doubles as a Wizard body for synergy decks that care about the creature type. The cost is that it does nothing the turn you cast it; in Azami, Lady of Scrolls decks this barely registers as a drawback since you're already running Wizards wall-to-wall and the tutor finds whatever piece you're missing.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01

Azami, Lady of Scrolls

53.2% of decks · synergy 0.50

Vedalken Aethermage is tailor-made for Azami, Lady of Scrolls — it finds any Wizard in the deck on demand and is itself a Wizard that taps for draw, meaning the tutor doubles as an engine piece the moment it hits the battlefield.

02

Inalla, Archmage Ritualist

45.2% of decks · synergy 0.44

Inalla, Archmage Ritualist pays one mana to copy enters-the-battlefield triggers, so casting Vedalken Aethermage gives you two Wizard bodies and two Wizardcycling activations worth of reach; the combination of tribal count and on-demand tutoring is exactly what Inalla shells want.

03

Sharuum the Hegemon

18.0% of decks · synergy 0.18

Sharuum the Hegemon runs artifact-heavy Esper builds that still lean on Wizards as support, and Vedalken Aethermage covers the gap by fetching the specific Wizard combo piece — Arcum Dagsson, Trinket Mage — at instant speed when the window opens.

04

Orvar, the All-Form

13.0% of decks · synergy 0.10

Orvar, the All-Form triggers off targeting your own permanents, and Vedalken Aethermage's Wizardcycling is a cheap spell you can point at your own creatures to generate Orvar copies while simultaneously finding the next Wizard you need.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

Format	Verdict
commander	legal
legacy	legal
modern	legal
pioneer	not legal
standard	not legal
vintage	legal
pauper	legal
oathbreaker	legal

Commander is the format Vedalken Aethermage was built for — singleton construction means the redundancy of Wizardcycling has real value, and the density of Wizard tribal commanders makes it a functional tutor in dozens of decklists. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but sees no meaningful play; Wizard tribal isn't a competitive archetype in those formats and a two-mana 1/1 with a situational cycling effect can't compete with the raw power level. Pauper is the one non-Commander format worth mentioning, where it's legal and could theoretically slot into a Wizard tempo shell, though the format lacks enough payoffs to make it consistent. Anywhere outside Commander, Vedalken Aethermage is a novelty.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.40 bulk tier

At $0.40, Vedalken Aethermage is bulk in every sense — it's a single-printing common that sees narrow but real demand in Wizard tribal Commander builds. The price is stable; it won't spike without a new high-profile Wizard commander pushing it, and it's cheap enough to grab a copy without thinking twice.