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Xorn

Creature — Elemental

If you would create one or more Treasure tokens, instead create those tokens plus an additional Treasure token.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
rare
Set
Adventures in the Forgotten Realms
Price
$8.82
EDHREC rank
#961
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Xorn card art
Xorn turns every non-combat treasure trigger into two treasures instead of one, which in the right deck is effectively a free Smothering Tithe stapled to your commander's game plan. Prosper, Tome-Bound and Jolene, the Plunder Queen both reach for it immediately because the doubling effect compounds fast enough to end games.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Jolene, the Plunder Queen

Jolene, the Plunder Queen

84.9% of decks · synergy 0.82

Jolene, the Plunder Queen generates treasures whenever opponents make them too, and Xorn doubles every single one of those triggers — the board fills with tokens faster than opponents can spend mana to answer it.

02
Prosper, Tome-Bound

Prosper, Tome-Bound

85.1% of decks · synergy 0.77

Prosper, Tome-Bound creates a treasure on each end step you cast a spell from exile, and Xorn converts every one of those single tokens into a pair, accelerating the mana-into-cards-into-mana loop that defines the deck.

03
Knuckles the Echidna

Knuckles the Echidna

81.6% of decks · synergy 0.73

Knuckles the Echidna rewards aggressive combat with treasure payoffs, and Xorn doubles that output so the deck moves from incremental advantage to explosive mana within a few attack steps.

04
Magda, Brazen Outlaw

Magda, Brazen Outlaw

80.9% of decks · synergy 0.72

Magda, Brazen Outlaw taps dwarves to generate treasures toward her tutor threshold, and Xorn halves the number of taps required by doubling each treasure the moment it's created.

05
Vazi, Keen Negotiator

Vazi, Keen Negotiator

78.3% of decks · synergy 0.72

Vazi, Keen Negotiator spreads treasures across the table to accumulate political leverage, and Xorn means every treasure Vazi generates for others starts as two — keeping your own share proportionally larger.

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

Xorn is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it's almost exclusively a Commander card. In 60-card formats the effect requires you to already be generating treasures at scale, and no competitive shell in Modern or Pioneer is set up to exploit doubling that way — the three-mana 3/2 body doesn't offset the setup cost. Commander is where Xorn does real work: treasure-based strategies are common enough that the doubling clause goes from conditional upside to consistent engine piece, and a three-mana noncreature-spell-style payoff on a creature body is easy to recur or protect.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

342 decks
Magda, Brazen OutlawAcademy ManufactorMaskwood NexusCursed MirrorSculpting SteelElixir of ImmortalityDwarven ScorcherXornClown Car

Magda, Brazen OutlawAcademy ManufactorMaskwood NexusCursed MirrorSculpting SteelElixir of ImmortalityDwarven ScorcherXornClown Car

Infinite card draw; Infinite Clue tokens; Infinite colored mana; Infinite damage to creatures; Infinite death triggers; Infinite draw triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite Food tokens; Infinite lifegain; Infinite lifegain triggers; Infinite LTB; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite Treasure tokens; Put all artifact and creature cards from your library onto the battlefield; Put all artifact cards and a subset of creature cards from your library onto the battleifeld

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Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

There's no direct one-card replacement for what Xorn does — treasure doubling at three mana is a unique effect. The closest budget angle is leaning on individual treasure producers like Tireless Provisioner or Old Gnawbone to generate volume rather than multiplying each trigger, which costs less but requires more card slots to match the same output. If the deck is already treasure-dense, running both Xorn and redundant producers is usually stronger than replacing it outright.

Price Context

Current price

$8.82 mid tier

At $8.82, Xorn sits in the mid tier — expensive enough to feel like a deliberate inclusion but not a budget breaker for the decks that want it. Its price is stable because it's a unique effect with no functional reprint, and demand from Prosper and Jolene lists alone keeps it from dropping.

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