Wishmonger
Creature — Unicorn Monger
: Target creature gains protection from the color of its controller's choice until end of turn. Any player may activate this ability.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Mercadian Masques
- Price
- $0.34
- EDHREC rank
- #22162
Wishmonger lets any player pay 2 to give a target creature protection from the color of their choice until end of turn — a political tool that trades in favors as currency. The rate is clunky and the effect is symmetrically available to opponents, which makes Wishmonger a niche political piece rather than a reliable protection spell.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Wishmonger is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but its real home is Commander — the political dimension is flat in one-on-one formats where the symmetry is just a liability. In Legacy and Vintage, a three-mana creature that requires an additional two-mana activation to grant temporary protection doesn't clear any competitive bar. Commander is the only context where Wishmonger's table-wide availability reads as a feature: you can broker deals, steer attacks, and occasionally save a key creature, all on one card.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.34 bulk tier
Wishmonger sits firmly in bulk territory at $0.34, and that's unlikely to change given its narrow appeal and low demand. It's a free include if you have a copy, but not worth tracking down unless you're specifically building a political Commander deck.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.